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QUANTIFYING GREEN COVER CHANGE<br />
FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN PLANNING:<br />
A CASE OF KUALA LUMPUR,<br />
MALAYSIA<br />
Kasturi Devi <strong>Kanniah</strong><br />
efforts to protect green cover have been ineffective are discussed in<br />
section 4.2.<br />
Area<br />
Total loss (Ha)<br />
Near Cochrane Road 3.62<br />
Between Imbi and Pudu Roads 4<br />
China Town 2.3<br />
Near Hotel Renaissance Ampang road 2<br />
Table 5. Green cover loss in Kuala Lumpur city center<br />
Subset of satellite images showing the green cover (green), non-green cover (blue), and loss of green<br />
cover (red) in Kepong Metropolitan Park between 2014 and 2016<br />
Subset Google Earth images of Kepong<br />
Metropolitan Park in 2014<br />
Subset Google Earth images of Kepong<br />
Metropolitan Park in 2016<br />
Time series of Google Earth images showing the land-use changes in Kepong Metropolitan Park<br />
(a)<br />
Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program, Working Paper Series 16<br />
© Kasturi Devi <strong>Kanniah</strong> & Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2017
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