Ipoh: A Future City From The Past

Jane Jacobs, Urban Theorists, 1961: Cities have the ability to provide something to everybody only because and only when they are created by everybody

The start of the National Day celebrations for Perak began on Saturday 12 August with a talk ‘Ipoh: Future City From the Past’.

 

Planning the future, En Zulkarnain, En Meor Zaidi and Teoh Chee Keong

The speakers was En Zulkarnain, MBI’s City Planner and En Meor Zaidi, Landscape Engineer also with MBI and Asst Professor Teoh Chee Keong from USCI University.

The speakers from MBI presented what we had seen and heard about before.  

What Teoh presented was new and the future direction, “with the consent of the government and authorities”, that Ipoh could become.

 

A plan.. all alongside the Kinta River

He talked of what was available in Ipoh and all it had to offer from the Kinta River, stretching from YMCA to till Kg Paloh , Old Town and get this - Taman DR and Waller Court and also what Kg Kuchai had to offer.

In particular he talked of Waller Court, yes one of the earliest low cost housing development next to Taman DR that had been singled out for redevelopment.

 

Waller Court has interesting features

He termed Waller Court as 17 blocks of walk-up flats with interesting and creative features which could be rejuvenated.

“It could be affordable housing for young people, a SOHO (small office home office). The interior could attract start-up and design firms or architects while the outdoors for night market and event space.

It could well be the next happening place in Ipoh after Concubine Lane”

All of a sudden I felt that it was Renaissance 2 about to start in Ipoh again.

This could be the start of an interesting month with Sama SAyangi MAlaysiaku.

JAG