urban population and scarcity of urban space has increased the importance of implementing brownfield regeneration
in the urban planning of developing countries. Malaysia is no exception; it is an emerging country and a member of
Group 1 developing countries in Southeast Asia with an urbanization rate exceeding 70% (Liu 2013) and the urban
population exceeding 60%. Thus, the need to provide adequate urbanspace for future development has resulted in
the inclusion of brownfield regeneration in the country’s National Urban Policy. Through the NUP9 Action Plan, the
National Urban Policy specifically instructs urban administrators to plan and prepare programs for brownfield
regeneration. In this study, special focus is given to Category B brownfield, which refers to ex-landfills and their
redevelopment as public parks. The increasing number of ex-landfills near urban areas, especially urban settlement,
and inadequate urban green provision based on planning standards of two acres per 1,000 urban population are
explicit justifications for the proposal to redevelop ex-landfills as public parks (National Landscape Department
2010; Department of Town and Country Planning Peninsular Malaysia 2012). Until 2014, only two pilot projects of
such redevelopment have been implemented in Malaysia, namely, Worldwide Landfill Park and Kuantan Passive
Park. This transformation necessitates impact studies. Therefore, this study is conducted with two research
objectives, namely, (i) to identify the communities’ perception of their quality of life and (ii) to determine the
communities’ perception of their living environment due to the impact of living next to public parks transformed
from ex-landfill sites