Images of Ipoh: Long Way to Great City Skyline

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Long Way to Great City Skyline

Ipoh is always left behind in pursuing a metropolitan skyline. There is a dream of many Ipoh folks to catch up with other Malaysian cities to build tall & big buildings. However, is it better to just have more and more high rise buildings? To me, the best skyline shall consists of skyscrapers with well-designed, built in quality, strategically located, and stays in harmony with the older part of downtown. As at this moment, there is no good planning to bring Ipoh towards achieving great skyline, but I have seen proposals by the city council to "kill" the heritage buildings by having modern high rise buildings surrounding the heritage landmarks.

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Ipoh, the capital city of Perak State, Malaysia, is the city that tin built. Located at the famous tin mining area, Kinta Valley, it used to be the world's largest tin mine since 19th century. Not only of its tin mine, but Ipoh also famous of its delicious food, beautiful mountain ranges, mysterious lime stone caves, attractive history & friendly citizen. Being the second in Malaysia that gain the status of city in year 1988 after Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh is one of the major cities in Malaysia with the population around 700,000. Began as a small village in 1870's, tin mine industry had brought in Chinese and Indian that boosted the town development since 1890's. The rapid growing town later upgraded to be the capital of Perak during the Japanese occupation at World War II. The rich tin resource had brought prosperity to many Ipoh miners that even make it once known as the City of Millionaires. Today, Ipoh has grown to cover a large area including the neighboring township such as Bercham, Tasek, Jelapang, Menglembu, Pengkalan, Simpang Pulai & Chemor. The city is still developing continuously while maintains its beauty of nature and harmony.