Street Planting Compositions: The Public and Expert Perspectives

A study on street planting was carried out in Shah Alam city. The importance of such study has become increasingly essential due to the public's awareness on landscape planting. The aim of this study is to compare the preferences of the public and the experts on the street planting composition. Using the Likert scale, 296 respondents evaluated the images of the street planting. The findings help to reduce the perceptual gap between the experts and the public thus, creating an environment that would be accepted by various groups of people.