Proceeding of Malaysian Universities Transportation Research Forum and Conferences 2010 (MUTRFC2010), 21 December 2010, Universiti Tenaga Nasional. ISBN 978-967-5770-08-1 269 THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PORT CITY Raja Noor Hafizah Raja Amir Shah 1 Jamalunlaili Abdullah *, 2 and Zakaria Ahmad 3 ABSTRACT: The initial geographical advantages have given rise to many port cities, and few have continued to remain alive without expanding productive region, as noted by Huff (1994). Although, the process of urbanization and industrialization within a port city indirectly give an impact on the development expansion of the port city, this usually leads to uncontrolled development. The development expansion occurs in order to meet the current demand of a port city from time to time, and because of that, the port city faces sensitive and controversial issues that need careful planning solutions. As such, this research is undertaken in order to identify the physical development of port city. The focus of this research is to examine the urban growth within the port city in Port Klang. This research takes into account the change in land use form within the urban area, distribution of physical activities and the direction of land use expansion of the port city area. The data has been collected from the 1980s until the most recent available data. The findings of this research will be used to adapt the element of green logistics in Port Klang in order to achieve the sustainable development within the port city area. In order to control the development and to achieve sustainable development, suitable recommendations include planning control on the port city growth and implementing the Integrated Supply Chains as the efficient physical distribution systems. Keywords: Urban Growth, Port City 1 Raja Noor Hafizah Raja Amir Shah, MITRANS, Universiti Teknologi Mara, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA 2 Jamalunlaili Abdullah, MITRANS, Universiti Teknologi Mara, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA 3 Zakaria Ahmad Principal Lecturer, MITRANS, Universiti Teknologi Mara, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA