Introduction

Kuala Lumpur stands as the capital city of Malaysia, with Malaysia being located in Southeast Asia.The government of Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy, and the currency of Malaysia is the Malaysian ringgit.

On average annually, Kuala Lumpur can reach to highs of 30 degrees Celsius and lows of 20 degrees Celsius. Just like Abu Dhabi, Malaysia has high humidity.

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Malaysia’s natural resources include the following:  tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron ore, bauxite, and natural gas. The top three positive features of Malaysia are that they encourage recycling, the government structure is solid, and they have reasonable consumer policies.

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City plan: Kuala Lumpur’s city plan isn’t a 100 percent multi – nuclei plan. Due to this, people who live in some areas can’t access stores with their basic needs and throughout Kuala Lumpur also, you don’t find many pedestrian nor bike pathways. This means that citizens rely too much on vehicles to transport themselves around from place to place.  This way of transportation results in lots of carbon emission that’ll negatively affects the atmosphere. In order to fix this problem, we have come up with a solution which has made the city plan a full multi nuclei city. Within the city will be pedestrian and bike paths in order to decrease the reliability on automobiles. In every 1.5 kilometer in the city will be a neighborhood with more than people’s basic needs like food, water, and housing, recreational and green space.

Air Quality: Because Kuala Lumpur contains many factories and depends a lot on vehicles, the increasing carbon emission affect the air quality by making it unclean. This problem also chips in to the humid atmosphere of Malaysia. With the new city plan that encourages pedestrian and bike paths, we can reduce the pollution, which will result in the clean air quality.

Environmental standards: Less than half of the city’s departments have any environmental standards. You can barely get involved into environmental initiatives. In downtown Kuala Lumpur, you don’t find many recycling bins next to the normal bins. This means that the environmental standards are low because they don’t encourage strategies to make a clean city. To raise the standards and awareness towards the environment in Kuala Lumpur, in the new city we’ve designed a recycling area for paper, plastic, and glass.

Natural Resources Pie Graphs (Current & 2100)

Waste Treatment Graphs Comparison

Nowadays Kuala Lumpur

2100 Kuala Lumpur: Here we can see that a larger amount of waste is being recycled compared to the waste being put in landfills, thus, increasing sustainability.

Food Production Graphs Comparison

Nowadays Kuala Lumpur

The food production will remain the same in 2100.

Water Resources Graphs Comparison

Nowadays Kuala Lumpur

2100 Kuala Lumpur: The water resources are renewably produced, thus they will not decrease.

Energy Consumption Charts Comparison

Nowadays Kuala Lumpur

2100 Kuala Lumpur: Due to sustainable acts, we expect the energy consumption rates to significantly change by a few thousand metric tons.

Energy Resources Charts Comparison

Nowadays Kuala Lumpur

2100 Kuala Lumpur:: We have designed our city so that it will provide more forms of renewable energy in the future. We predict, as shown above, that the fossil fuels will be reduced greatly, and if renewable sources such hydro-power, wind power and solar energy are used, the city will be more sustainable and have a fresher, cleaner environment.

Water Consumption Charts Comparison

Nowadays Kuala Lumpur 

2100 Kuala Lumpur: We plan that the agricultural and industrial use of water will be reduced greatly through new, water-saving technology, and by teaching farmers and workers the importance of saving water. Since domestic use of water is hard to prevent, it has been reduced, but not as much.

Government Policy

Prime Minister Najib Razak

The current government system is quite effective as it fulfills most of the citizens needs, as well as civil rights. Problems that persist in the system include a 3.6% poverty level and production of too much non-renewable energy sources. Strengths are garbage treatment/recycling, government structure and the consumer policies. Some attributes are weak such as the air quality (too much pollution), their environmental standards and their overall green buildings percentage is comparatively low. Thanks to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption agency, Corruption rates have decreased significantly recently. Also, policies can be put in place to benefit the city and nation. For example, there are issues within employment that can be solved by selling SOME land to the foreign companies so they will build factories or any other workplaces to create more jobs. The energy problems may be solved by building hydropower plants because Malaysia has a lot of watercourses. More policies can include a maximum house area rule that prevents people building households that are larger than 800ft and if it is going to be occupied by more than four people, 200 ft per person may be added. Also, to reduce consumerism and its other negative effects, limiting advertisement budgets and limiting the amount of space that can be used for advertising benefits.

Consumer Policy

Some aspects of Malaysia trade are sustainable. The primary sector of Malaysia’s trade consists of agriculture and forestry. Malaysia just doesn’t trade agricultural and forestry goods but a bunch of other items too. Malaysia imports electronics, petroleum, machinery, plastics, vehicles, iron, steel, and some chemicals. They export also electronic equipment, petroleum and chemicals, but the different trade items are liquefied natural gas, wooden products, palm oil, rubber, and textiles.

 We think that Malaysia should be more dependent upon primary sector trading, which only trades agricultural and forestry goods. Malaysia should utilize their secondary sector trading occasionally only. For vehicles, Malaysia could only trade hybrid cars, instead of regular cars which result in a release of carbon monoxide that’s harmful to the environment. Once the population depends more on hybrid cars, the city will thus need more bio fuel, which will result in a decrease on the dependency of normal hazardous fuel.

Population Pyramid

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Current Population Pyramid

      The population pyramid of Malaysia is very stable, with a quite equal, 1.01 male to female ratio. The country seems to be sustainable, but slowly growing. Malaysians also receives a moderately low amount of maternity leave (60 days), so there is a good birth rate (21/1000 people per year). History shows that there were no significant wars in Malaysia, with the exception of a few minor brawls, so there hasn't been any huge population shifts due to war. According to Malaysian Laws, everybody has equal, basic rights, but sometimes, women's rights are violated through discrimination such as violence, denial of employment and more. Malaysians are, for the most part, well-educated, with a 98.5% rate for both genders, and a 98.7% rate for women. Due to education, the fertility rate isn't high (2.67 children/woman on avg.). Overall, I think Malaysia is a quite sustainable country with a balanced population growth. If the appropriate resources are used, Malaysia can be  a successful country that conserves sustainability.

2100 Population Pyramid

•    Teach about family planning: This will change people’s beliefs on the amount of kids they have. They will be teaching about the value of smaller families compared to large families. The benefits of a small families include the following:

1.       Less use of resources within the family and less demand for national resources.

2.       Less pressure on inhabiting land, thus the country will have more space for farmland and residential areas.

3.       Families would save more money.

·          Teach about marriage policies in polygamist society (controversial): This policy might be controversial because of their Islamic beliefs.

·         Encourage a long maternity leave: you’d think that with a longer maternity leave women would be having more kids, but it’s the opposite way around. If you enforce a longer maternity leave, women would have less kid because right after they deliver them they would want to get back to work.

City Plan

Kuala Lumpur is set up in multi nuclei and sector zoning structure. Since residential areas are spread throughout the city, we’ve evaluated Kuala Lumpur as a Multi Nuclei City, but since a commercial area lies in the centre of the city and everything else is spread around it, you can also claim that it has a sector like zoning structure.

Since a majority of Kuala Lumpur is comprised of residential areas, workplaces, groceries, green space and schools are easily accessible for people of all ages.

For construction of houses in Kuala Lumpur, builders use anti-rusting metal and normal cement. To run these houses, a whole bunch of energy is supplied to run air conditioning, water heating systems, and electronic appliances because similar to Abu Dhabi, majority of the living space consist of apartment building. These apartment buildings require lots of energy to run. Malaysia can’t produce enough energy for the whole city due to a lack in resources, so the government imports its energy from multiple different countries.

Kuala Lumpur City Layout

For our zoning action plan, we’ve developed bike and pedestrian paths around the city in order to restrict the use of automobiles. Two solar panel areas in our neighborhood harness Kuala Lumpur’s energy. We’ve lastly planted in large green spaces in the neighborhood for a clean and fresh environment.

CONCLUSION

Malaysia, at the current stage, is not in horribly bad position compared to the sustainability of other nations around the world, but as we have thoroughly explained, it has the top potential of becoming one of the worlds leading countries in green-energy production. It will also be one of the leading states for a well organized city, being organized in a multi-nuclei setting, thus making them a role-model for the rest of the world.

A well-thought government structure, as we have shown, will allow Malaysia to be the leader of world-wide success.