How bad urban design set Cyberjaya up for failure
Cyberjaya is a city in Selangor state, about halfway between Kuala Lumpur and Kuala Lumpur International Airport. This is a great place to build a new city. A real estate agent would put “strategic location” in their sales blurb, and on paper it is.
Unfortunately Malaysia is bad at building new cities, and Cyberjaya is a fumbled opportunity to make a great city. There have been plenty of articles written about how Cyberjaya is Malaysia’s ‘failed Silicon Valley’. What they don’t talk about is how the bad urban design of Cyberjaya set it up for failure.
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Cyberjaya is a functioning monument to bad urban design in Malaysia.
How to fix Cyberjaya
One of the problems of Cyberjaya is that it’s a boring city. If you want to attract the best tech talent in the world, then you need a great city to go with it. This should have been part of the project as well. Build an amazing city that people will beat the door down to move to.
Malaysia already has a built-in disadvantage with their morality police, sin taxes, and internet censorship. Malaysia just can’t expect to build office parks with cheap rent and tax breaks and expect people to be excited to live there.
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https://futuresoutheastasia.com/bad-urban-design-cyberjaya/Now, can claim cyberjaya town planning is a failure. Cbj lovers are in denial.