Meanings
- MalaysiaKuala Lumpur City Hall, the city council that governs the city of Kuala Lumpur.
... DBKL and the first construction works commenced in 2015 (Kozlowski 2015). In 2015 DBKL endorsed the Urban Design Guidelines for Central Kuala Lumpur which includes an entire section on heritage guidelines. These heritage guidelines for[…]
2017 September 1, Simon Huston, Smart Urban Regeneration: Visions, Institutions and Mechanisms for Real Estate, Routledge, →ISBN1 more example
Certainly, this was in part due to my own position as a foreign researcher seeking information, and it is safe to say I was able to gain greater access to DBKL officials than that afforded to Brickfields residents. Nonetheless, despite the relative failure of my attempts to gain empirical information from these officials regarding ongoing development projects in Brickfields,[…]
2008 July 14, Richard Baxstrom, Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 107
Origin
- MalayDBKL
- EnglishDBKL
Borrowed from Malay DBKL, from initialism of Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur.
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