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Wan Omar, Wan Rabiah
(2004)
Evaluation Of Park Facility Provisions By Residents Of Seri Manjung New Town, Perak Darul Ridzuan.
Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Abstract
This study was undertaken to evaluate the extent of existing residential park facilities
provision in Seri Manjung New Town, Perak Darul Ridzuan in fulfilling users’
recreation needs. Basically, this study answered four objectives namely, to compare
the provision of existing park facilities with the Planning Standard requirement, to
describe current use pattern of residential parks in Seri Manjung New Town, and to
estimate users’ recreation needs based on the Importance Performance Analysis of
residential park facilities.
The data was successfully collected through park observations and questionnaire
survey. The response rate for questionnaire survey was good whereby all 420
questionnaires from sample respondents were successfully collected. Descriptive
analysis and Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) were applied as the main
instruments to evaluate park facility performance. The use pattern of residential
parks in the study area was described based on nine items namely income, frequency
of park visit, age group, gender, visiting time, guardian permission, night park visit,
popular recreation activity, and responsibility towards park facility. The IPA
assessed the park facilities performance in fulfilling users’ needs.
The outcomes of this study generally showed that Manjung Municipal Council failed
to meet the standard requirement in the provision of park facilities in the study area. Among the seven parks, only one park achieved 67% compliance rate, four (4) parks
at 50% and two (2) parks managed to comply only 25% of the standard requirement.
Findings on the IPA indicated that among the seven residential parks, three parks
needed attention (high importance but low performance) while the rest were rated as
good work (high importance and high performance).
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