Re-energize abandoned sport complex through ecological landscape design for liveable community at Kompleks Sukan Tan Sri Dato Haji Mohd Said, Seremban 2 Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia / Muhammad Haikal Omar

• Main Author: Omar, Muhammad Haikal
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Sports and tourism. Sports tourism; Outdoor life. Outdoor recreation; Sporting goods industry. Recreational equipment; Landscape architecture
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/72829/1/72829.PDF; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/72829/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

Sport complex or place for the communities to channel their energy is one of the significant elements of liveable cities. Recreational and gathering space like sport complex in a community is important to imbued a positive emotional experience and it must to be contained with human attachment and caring for the place while it will naturally create social bonding among the local communities and neighbourhood users. Beside that sport can make us stay healthy longer when the community recreation centres offer many programs that help benefit both the body and the mind. Studies have shown that people who exercise regularly have lower blood pressure, lower heart disease rates, and overall increased longevity. Among that that, Sport complex also play roles in cultural diversity. Sometimes, cultural differences can cause some problems in community relations and in workplaces. Participating in group activities can help to increase cohesion in both the community and the workplace. Sports tourism also brings more cultural diversity to many types of different events. However, when Sports complex is located in polluted environment, it will bring the negative side effects to its users. So, with injecting the Ecological Landscape Design approaches in the area of sport complex is very necessary because these approaches will balance the existing ecosystem diversity with social interactions, beside that it will also diverse the unity to keep human engage with nature and environment