Promoting river-based infrastructure development: integrating landscaper components in urban river development in Malaysia

The main concern of river development was to facilitate future development of a river in a way they can preserve and conserve the river environment naturally.Since the river areas was one of the most valuable assets in sustaining urban development, the river mitigation measures formulated should not discourage the development to take place.However it must be strictly safeguarded by proper controlling and monitoring mechanism by the relevant approval authorities. Therefore, the objective of the paper is to review the general features of urban river development and urban river landscaping by local authority in implementing the river infrastructure mitigation projects.This paper also made suggestions on how the relevant authorities can play their roles for a friendly monitoring of river development particularly in urban property development.