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What is Federal Department of Town and Country Planning

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Handbook of Research on E-Planning: ICTs for Urban Development and Monitoring
Is the planning authority at the Federal level that is responsible in charting the general direction of planning and development for the nation. Its functions also include promoting town and country planning in Malaysia and providing advisory services to the Federal Government and planning authorities at State and Local levels. It also provides technical and monetary supports to State and Local level planning authorities in the preparation of their development plans.
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GIS Implementation in Malaysian Statutory Development Plan System
Muhammad Faris Abdullah (International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia), Alias Abdullah (International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia), and Rustam Khairi Zahari (International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-929-3.ch023
Abstract
The chapter presents the current state of GIS implementation in Malaysian development plan system. It offers an overview of GIS implementation worldwide, touching briefly on the history of GIS, planners’ early acceptance of the system, factors that promote GIS implementation, level of usage among planners, and factors that impede successful GIS implementation. At the end, the chapter provides a comparison between the state of GIS implementation in Malaysian statutory development plan system with the state of GIS implementation worldwide. The evidence was derived from three main sources: literature, empirical observation of GIS implementation in Malaysia, and a survey conducted in 2008.
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