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    How safe and secure is our public places?

    By on January 31, 2008

    At many public places in cities, thousands of people come and go everyday, often carrying bulky packages. No metal detectors check them for weapons. And there is always the possibility that somewhere in the crowd is an unwanted person, a criminal, disgruntled employee, a jilted lover or a mental disorder patient on the edge, of [...]


    Graffiti on The Urban Surface

    By on January 28, 2008

    This written work has recently been published in Bergmann, Alexander (Ed.); Music-City. Sport-City. Leisure-City. A reader on different concepts of culture, creative industries, and urban regeneration attempts. Germany, 2008. Graffiti exists where human civilization exists. It is almost impossible to find a human settlement without graffiti. They can be found everywhere, almost on any surface [...]


    The existence of Semarang Diponegoro Park, Today

    By on January 28, 2008

    Diponegoro Park (Taman Diponegoro), located in Semarang city area, have significant change from its function for the park and one of node area there. The difference happen from the past and today with its main function, as was activity here used to be an active park. Later on, this place had just become a passive [...]


    Kampung Tunjungan Survey (Translated and edited from Mohammad Cahyo’s brief report to the deMAYA community-26/1/2008)

    By on January 27, 2008

    Our survey took place on Thursday, January 24th 2008 covering Kampung Kebangsren, Kampung Blauran, and Kampung Ketandan, and involved seven members: Anggara Sijabat, MADcahyo, Putu Surya KB, P.Pras, Indiga, Hendi and Baloma. Mas Wahyu and Chotob failed to attend the survey due to other agendas.   Effectively we began our survey at 09.00, starting from [...]


    Observing The Urban Social Space: Questioning Behavior in the Urban Public Sphere

    By on January 24, 2008

    During the period of time the author has spent studying in Shanghai, he has often heard of various major planning issues. In some lecture series, the Danwei community was highlighted. However, in this short written piece, the author would like to focus on the smaller problems that lie underneath larger planning issues: the human aspect [...]


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    The Impact of Climate Change: We Need to Act, Not Simply React

    January 18, 2013

    The effects of climate change including sea level rise, extreme heat, storm surges, threaten water supplies, and negative effects on the infrastructure. Climate change harms public health, as it will threatens human health and well-being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, diseases transmitted by insects, food and [...]

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    Local Wisdom Principe as a Greenship (Rating Tool) for Building

    September 28, 2012

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    Indonesia has abundant of natural resources in terms of renewable energy according to climate change, which has already mainstreamed in most of Indonesia’s policies. Meanwhile, lack of inter-department coordination, limited access to information, and poor policy implementation just become the main weakness. One of this poor policy implementation is greenship for building. Greenship as a [...]

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    Review of Indonesian Cities from European Perspective

    January 27, 2013

    This review was to expose general issues of Indonesian cities filtered through a framework of European urban standards, which were represented in two models of urbanity developed by Jacques Levy. The framework consists in 14 factors, with each one of them able to feed a separate lecture. It was read across from several Indonesian cities [...]

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    Times Square New York as a Public Place

    August 28, 2012

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    There are a lot of interesting places near Times Square, since this city relying their income from tourism sector. The Times Square located at the heart of New York City, and this place is always crowded for 24 hours. Stores and shopping centers are open everyday, as well as restaurants and cafes, many of them [...]

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    Culture Industry & Indonesia’s Traditional Markets

    June 7, 2009

    Background: Traditionally, markets in Indonesia were not just places to trade goods and services, but also a place of cultural and social exchange. In the ancient days, markets open once a week (the Javanese calendar only has 5 days in a week; Pahing, Pon, Wage, Kliwon, and Legi) because the population was not as dense [...]

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    Photograph of Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York

    March 12, 2012

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    The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (often referred to as “The Guggenheim”) was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, as one of the 20th century’s most important architectural landmarks, especially because it’s unique building shape (formed in spiral shape). The museum is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), on [...]



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