Investigating the Challenges Faced in Designing Cultural Landscape at Pantai Lido Urban Waterfront, Johor Bahru, Malaysia (original) (raw)

2022, GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites

Pantai Lido of Johor Bahru has a diversity of cultures, beautiful landscapes, and unique nature along its waterfront. This diversity at one time, made Pantai Lido a tourist’s option for domestic as well as international visits. After more than fifty decades of being a landscape of magnificent landmark for Johor Bahru, Pantai Lido is now experienced alteration which has resulted in the de-territorialisation of its cultural landscape. This inevitably eroded the identity and symbolism of the place. Thus, the objective of this paper is to explore and investigated the challenges that faced in designing cultural landscape at Pantai Lido, to preserve Pantai Lido from the de-territorialisation of cultural landscape. To achieve the objectives of the paper, a qualitative research method using a case study approach has been conducted in order to investigated the challenges in designing cultural landscape at Pantai Lido, and Pantai Lido was the context for data collection. A total of 12 informa...