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标题：Physical Qualities and Elements of Streets in the Context of Royal Town in Malaysia
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作者：Wan Norisma Wan Ismail ; Nor Haslina Ja’afar ; Nor Zalina Harun 等
期刊名称：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
电子版ISSN：0975-2935
出版年度：2020
卷号：12
期号：1
页码：1-13
DOI：10.21659/rupkatha.v12n1.21
出版社：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
摘要：Streets are the basic elements in the urban structure and it characterized the townscape and image of thetown. The street provides a link between buildings, both within the street, and in the town at large. Streetsand buildings must be appropriate to, and unique to, the particular town in which they are located. Thisarticle is based on the findings of a doctoral research examining characteristics of street from the aspect ofbuilding appearance in the royal town of Kuala Kangsar. Mixed methodology approached are adopted usingthe triangulation design through the combination of quantitative data with qualitative data to further analyzethe relations between them and subsequently validated by focus group discussions. The study found thatbuilding is a key component that forms the character of a street and it is contributed by physical qualitiessuch as attractiveness,visibility and human scale. These physical qualities are contributed by physicalelements namely building design, building skyline, building continuity and consistency, vertical elements,appearance of civic building, marker sequences, building scale and enclosure. While each of these elementsare influenced by factors such as building location,building function, building age, building height and size,building form, building openings, roof form, architectural style, facade treatment and decorations, buildingsignage, street width, five-foot walkway and quality of view. The paper concludes by establishing that streetcharacteristics has a significant contribution in preserving the identity of the royal town therefore it shouldbe consideredfor the improvement and refinement of existing guidelines regarding the physical design ofstreets in the royal towns of Malaysia.
关键词：Street; character; royal; town; physical; elements; qualities