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public space
Times Square New York as a Public Place
By architectjournal.org on August 28, 2012
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 [...]
Venetian Canals; Veins of a City
By Vicky Ariyanti on April 18, 2008
Among all touristy places in Europe, my all time favorite would be Venezia. Each time I went there, there were always something I miss out from the last time I was there. May be it was the air that filled with salt or the sound of water from the canals or the gushing winds that [...]
Bonn’s Marketplace
By Vicky Ariyanti on April 18, 2008
When thinking about an impact of a place that is of a city scale, with many functions and means of usage, we think about an urban space. Particularly in this 2000 year-old city; Bonn, there is the need of the whole urban scale to congregate at one point and through tradition; Germans have been used [...]
How safe and secure is our public places?
By Anindita Dini 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 Prananda Navitas 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 [...]
climate change »
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 [...]
Moral Responsibility »
Local Wisdom Principe as a Greenship (Rating Tool) for Building
September 28, 2012
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
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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urban management »
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
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 [...]
