BUKU ABSTRAK - Universiti Putra Malaysia

Forestry & Environment
Reliability of the Visual Resource Assessment Procedure in Assessing Malaysian
Visual Landscape Quality
Mr. Mohd. Nazri Saidon
Mustafa Kamal, Mohd. Shariff, Ramdzani Abdullah and Habshah Midi
Faculty of Design and Architecture, University Putra Malaysia,
43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
+603-8946 4075; mnazri@putra.upm.edu.my
Visual Resource Assessment Procedure (VRAP) is a technique for assessing visual landscape quality and it
has been widely used in the United States unlike in Malaysia. This article describes a study to test the reliability of
VRAP for use by Malaysian professionals. In this study, ten Malaysian landscape architecture professionals were
asked to use VRAP to assess a farm landscape at a local university campus in Malaysia. Results indicated that
70% of the professionals agreed that the landscape could be categorised under the Preservation Class. Another
20% categorised the landscape under the Retention Class and the rest categorised the farm as Partial Retention
Class. Thus, the result of this study indicated that VRAP is a reliable tool for assessing the visual landscape if it
is to be applied by Malaysian professionals and for local landscapes. The article hopes that the VRAP method
will assist professionals and researchers in assessing visual landscape quality in Malaysia with high confidence.
Keywords: VRAP, visual resources, participant assessment, preference
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