| Résumé: | Kuala Lumpur has signalled a modernised and progressive metropolitan city with
massive changes in physical infrastructure and the city's environment including
the urban parks. Thus, there is a need to develop more appropriate measures
for managing these landscapes sustainably. Implementing a naturalistic
landscape style in tropical urban parks may represent a different appearance. it
would create different public reactions compared to the current landscape style.
Therefore, this study aims to investigate the public acceptance of landscape style
in Kuala Lumpur's urban parks and changing it to a more naturalistic landscape
style. Objectives for this study are 1) to access public acceptance for landscape
style in an urban park and changes towards naturalistic landscape style, 2) to
analyse the factor that influences public acceptance for naturalistic landscape
style in an urban park, and 3) to make recommendations of suitable naturalistic
landscape style in Kuala Lumpur’s urban park according to public acceptance. A
questionnaire survey was conducted to collect the data of three selected urban
parks in Kuala Lumpur, which are Perdana Botanical Garden (PBG), Ampang
Hilir Park (AHP), and Bukit Kiara Federal Park (BKFP) have been polled for their
acceptance regards familiarity with nature, usability of park, visual acceptance,
level of agreement towards naturalistic landscape and demographic. The result
found that the public generally accepts the existing and naturalistic landscapes
under certain conditions, such as the type of area it is located and their function,
as the majority of them come to the park for leisure with family and friends. The
public is willing to accept such a landscape style with some considerations. This
research's significant outcome will help determine the suitable appearance of the
naturalistic landscape style for implementation based on public acceptance.
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