The Need to Pay Attention to Sustainable Development in Port Cities (Case Study of George Town Malaysia)

At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the relations between the city and the port have changed. While economic globalization is continuing to advance, coastal port cities have enjoyed increasingly prominent status and roles as the link between the sea and the land and an important window of foreign trade exchange. The large variety of jobs is the reason of port and port activities, caused to attract large number of immigrants so that it increased the scale of the physical city. Overpopulation and port activities threaten human resources, the environment, especially the balanced development of urban lands. In this article, scientific research, reports and programs that are examined in this field are reviewed. The port of George Town in Malaysia is a famous city. The development of the port, natural resources which were destroyed or polluted, construction that was carried out on it, and social and cultural foundations will be analyzed. Based on the job and ethnic diversity, different neighborhoods were formed. In the meantime, some sustainable development indicators have been ignored, and it provides new information to the authorities and planners.

کلیدواژه ها:

sustainable development ، port city ، physical development ، and land use planning