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What Makes A City?

Chau Loon Wai, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Built, Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

26-Nov-20 21:00

What Makes A City?

Subang Jaya was recently declared a city and it got us thinking about how a city is defined beyond the administrative criteria. Chau Loon Wai, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Built, Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, joins us to ponder the very question, focusing on sustainable urban design.

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Produced by: Haniff Baharudin

Presented by: Haniff Baharudin


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Categories:  Education,  Environment,  Science,  People and Places

Tags:  urban design,  places,  people,  urban development,  city,  subang jaya,  industries,  services,  Malaysia, 


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