Urban: Rise and Demise of A City

 

1. What can you see? From your place to your city.

2. Explain the factors of the rise and demise of a city. Give one example for each case.

ANSWER:

Since I live in Kg. M, Kuala Terengganu for many years, I can see a lot of improvement in public service facilities.  Kg.M is densely populated settlements.  Hence, the local government always ensure that the facilities are all well-functioning.  There is a primary school and secondary school near my house. It just 2 kilometres away from our residential. Besides, Kg. M also has the police office.  Since Kg.M is a populated settlement, we have bigger mosque, which is behind the primary school.  Which means, it is near to residential area. The location of mosque that near to residential area is important since it will ease people, especially the eldest to get access to the mosque.  Then, there is a market located in the heart of Kg. M.  Usually, villagers would sell their crops in the market, while every Monday at night, they would sell foods, clothes, toys, and others. Kg. M also have a best health facility. In front of the night market, there is a clinic, while the pharmacy is just a few metres away from the clinic and markets.  Lastly, in our place, there is a bridge with connect Kg. M with Kg. PR.  Hence, it will make us easier to travel to the city, Bandaraya Kuala Terengganu.

One of the factors of the rise and demise of a city is a good public service.  For example, public transport. If we take Kuala Lumpur for example, Kuala Lumpur is the big cities which has the most efficient public transport like MRT, LRT and public busses among other state capitals.  Most of the workers would use public transport to go to the office.  The public transport become an important transport for them.  Some of them refuse to buy their own car and become fully dependent on public transports.  This situation shows the public transport are not an issue there.  Next, if we compared to Kuala Terengganu, even though it is also a capital state of Terengganu, the public transport would not become the first choice of their people.  Even though there are a lot of job opportunities there, the public transports are not efficient as it has to be.  The frequency of the public transports like busses are also low.  People would have no choice but to have their own vehicles to move from one place to another.  Hence, the cost of living would increase. Many people would migrate to another cities like Kuala Lumpur which offers high wages with the efficient public transport.  So that, they could save more.

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