Public Perception on Existing Building and Facilities at Public Market in Northern Region of Malaysia

Abstract

Public market have been known for many centuries. They have been an important place and source of
daily needs, commence and social part for over 6000 years ago. From community to another
community public markets expands to become more function effectively as they exist because they serve
the needs, while some public markets has changed in meaning over time and still different from place
to place. Malaysia is one of the developing country, as it should not be ignored to plan a good building
construction as well as the facilities management at public markets. The planning of building and
facilities management must be maintain to ensure that the surrounding of the buildings is always in a
good quality, safe and healthy to all occupants or visitors of the buildings. To ensure that the facilities
and the existing building at public markets operated smoothly, all the party involved must be aware
and play the important role to sustain the characteristics of the facilities. Hence, this research believes
that, with the improvement of facilities can be completely transformed into viable and social interactive
places.