BORN to PLAN.........: FIRST CLASS FACILITIES.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

FIRST CLASS FACILITIES.

Across the border of the city center, our eyes will catch up with the vibrant, fantastic, incredible first class facilities allocated by the government. The facilities provided showed the government intention to show their standard to the other country in order to compete in the global world. Injection of huge allocation to improve and upgrade the facilities has never ever ending but in the real world every plan that has been proposed only thinks about the vantage to the certain groups. As the results, after years the project has been completed the major problem in every construction in Malaysia immediately arose - no ever a single maintenance has been done to maintain the facilities. The facilities once upon a time has recognized as a vibrant, fantastic, incredible first class facilities now become unworthy, abandon, disgusted place to stop. And the most blunders when the facilities become the source of threatening the safety especially to the city dwellers. No wonder the maintenance works always undergo after several death has been recorded due to the unmaintenance facilities. In the other word, the first class facilities in Malaysia never experience the first class maintenance.

Back to the main topic, facility provided in the city center always needed hefty cost. But, the usages of the facilities provided are limited to a certain group. Basically, the facilities in the elitist area are better than other area. This situation happens because the developer wants to attract the group to have properties in their project. Obviously, not all the citizens will get access to the facilities. Only people who are willing to invest their money will get the full access to thus facilities. Meanwhile in the other part, where high demand from the ordinary city dwellers, the facilities provided always look very poor neither in condition nor maintenance. The urban designer like planner, architect and engineer should be blamed for what happen nowadays. They have already design settlement for elitist group and create segregation in the social aspect. In the same time they also create a new pattern in the quality of life of the people who live in the urban area. The rich people will become rich and the lower class people will become tenser. Local authority should provide facility without thinking the interest but they should think other users which are always needs the facility in their daily routine and help them to improve their quality of life.