QUESTIONS ON KUALA LUMPUR CITY REGION

In my literature review on city region, National Urbanization Policy and Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2020, a few questions I try to answer in order to understand more the role of Kuala Lumpur as National Capital City:

1. In what ways are Kuala Lumpur City Region capabilities to generate wealth enhanced or threatened by international flows of capital, people, goods and information?
2. What policy strategies can be devised to create and sustain local competitive advantages and to ensure economic growth, while bringing wasteful inter-regional competition for mobile investments under control?
3. How can social well-being and environmental quality be secured in Kuala Lumpur City Region when these often seem to be endangered by increasing urbanization and globalization?
4. How do we plan for the public interest in Kuala Lumpur City Region with multiple publics?
5. What alternative institutional arrangements need to be developed to deal with strategic region-wide policy issues and to ensure effective governance of inter-regional relations in the emerging new world order?
6. Can Kuala Lumpur City Region be the architects of our own future?
7. Why is Kuala Lumpur City Region growing rapidly precisely at a moment in history when some analysts are claiming that the end of geography is in sight, and that the world is turning into a placeless space of flows?
8. How have forms of economic and social organization in Kuala Lumpur City Region responded to globalization, and what new problems have been created as a consequence?
9. What main governance tasks do Kuala Lumpur City Region face as they seek to preserve and enhance their wealth and well-being?
10. How can we define the public interest in culturally heterogeneous Kuala Lumpur City Region ?