Soul of NatureEcological restoration are focus for mainly large natural areas and reserves. Large reserves are generally better for biodiversity conservation and sustainability which can support more species than smaller ones. However, in recent decades, the practice of restoration has been expanded to smaller green reserves of urban ecosystem which present different challenges and opportunities. Due to their proximity to urban areas and the city dwellers, their recreational and environmental burdens are continuously increasing. An understanding of human and urbanization impact on these diminishing urban forests and contemplating practical design approaches call for urgent solutions. Hence, the sensitive area landscape studio’s project for the year 2011 addressed urban green forest reserves in Klang Valley where the most intensive development in Malaysia is taking place. The original landscape of Klang Valley had been altered through time by human interventions for mining and intensive agricultural production and recently for residential, commercial, educational and industrial purposes. Depending on their intensity of development, these human activities have gradually encroached the remaining green lungs. They resulted in a scattered green reserves where secondary forest of different stages of succession are becoming small green remnants embedded in an urban matrix area. Abd Aziz Othman |
