scholarly journals Privatisasi Ruang Publik dari Civic Centre menjadi Central Business District ( Belajar dari kasus Kawasan Simpang Lima Semarang)

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Edi Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Public Place ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
The People ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Business District ◽  
The Impact

Based on The Master Plan of Semarang City from 1975 to 2005, Simpang Lima area has been established as a Civic Centre area which its development is aimed to be a culture area broadly creating public activities for the people. During its development, due to its enormous economic potential, this area has turned into Central Business District area having several characteristics such as commercial activities, multi-storied buildings, heavy traffic, teeming street vendors and others. The impact is privatization of public space in the form of occupying of lots/buildings done by a group of businessmen owning shopping centers/hotels, using of roads for parking lot, and occupancy of pedestrian ways for street vendors. The public place privatization has prevented people to use public space freely. This problem is worthy of study. Public place privatization widely influences people because on the one hand, public place gives important meaning to people in the context of purpose, social, culture, history, and politics; on the other hand, these people will also give special meaning to this place. This study uses descriptive approach which describes and interprets the problem of public space privatization in Simpang Lima area including its impact.

scholarly journals “The street is ours”. A comparative analysis of street trading, Covid-19 and new street geographies in Harare, Zimbabwe and Kisumu, Kenya

Food Security ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Kiaka ◽  
Shiela Chikulo ◽  
Sacha Slootheer ◽  
Paul Hebinck
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Urban Food Security ◽  
Street Trading ◽  
Food Economy ◽  
City State ◽  
Abstract Spaces ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

AbstractThis collaborative and comparative paper deals with the impact of Covid-19 on the use and governance of public space and street trade in particular in two major African cities. The importance of street trading for urban food security and urban-based livelihoods is beyond dispute. Trading on the streets does, however, not occur in neutral or abstract spaces, but rather in lived-in and contested spaces, governed by what is referred to as ‘street geographies’, evoking outbreaks of violence and repression. Vendors are subjected to the politics of municipalities and the state to modernize the socio-spatial ordering of the city and the urban food economy through restructuring, regulating, and restricting street vending. Street vendors are harassed, streets are swept clean, and hygiene standards imposed. We argue here that the everyday struggle for the street has intensified since and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mobility and the use of urban space either being restricted by the city-state or being defended and opened up by street traders, is common to the situation in Harare and Kisumu. Covid-19, we pose, redefines, and creates ‘new’ street geographies. These geographies pivot on agency and creativity employed by street trade actors while navigating the lockdown measures imposed by state actors. Traders navigate the space or room for manoeuvre they create for themselves, but this space unfolds only temporarily, opens for a few only and closes for most of the street traders who become more uncertain and vulnerable than ever before, irrespective of whether they are licensed, paying rents for vending stalls to the city, or ‘illegally’ vending on the street.

Commute and labour productivity: investigation of inner city construction sites

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 1305-1319
Author(s):  
Daniel Alejandro Chaparro ◽  
Fei J. Ying ◽  
Funmilayo Ebun Rotimi ◽  
Temitope Egbelakin
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Content Type ◽  
City Construction ◽  
Business District ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to identify the impact that commute patterns pose on construction labour productivity (CLP). There is limited research focussed on the impact of workforce transportation on productivity, even fewer in a construction environment. In particular, this study seeks to fill a gap in the understanding of how commute patterns may influence CLP. Design/methodology/approach Key factors reported affecting CLP were identified through a comprehensive literature review. Data were collected from 27 interviews and observational evidence at construction sites on Auckland Central Business District (CBD). Findings Shortage of skills, communication among workers, shirking behaviour, absenteeism and tardiness were perceived as the most critical labour productivity factors that are influenced by commute patterns. It is considered that stressful commutes may lead to shirking behaviours (absenteeism and calling sick). Meanwhile, ridesharing may encourage communication among workers. Research limitations/implications The study was carried out in a central business district, focussing on a geographic area with its particular characteristics. The results, thus, may not be generalised in general urban settings. Originality/value The research outcomes can be used as guidelines for companies considering travel plans for their employees, to minimise the negative impact commuting can have on workers, especially in industries with low productivity.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Structure and Accessibility of Public Space Network in Kano Central Area with the Bid to Promote Urban Cohesion and Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.25) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Muhammad Muktar ◽  
Abdulaziz S. Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Space Network ◽  
Sustainability Issue ◽  
Business District

There have been major concerns in the planning of both public and private spaces in Kano central area. Consequently, the entire urban fabric have been restructured due to uncontrolled developmental growth, population density, high cost of land value, unavailability of business location and poor accessibility to road network. These situations have brought about a physical and social shift in the position of Kano Central Business District (CBD) area, of which not prevented will continue to cause major urban cohesion and sustainability issue. Thus, this paper took a preemptive step to evaluate the existing problems and identify the major sustainability issues and where urban cohesion failed. A qualitative method was employed that does not only consider the study of morphological factors of the public space network in Kano CBD, but also the social, environmental and economic dynamics they generate. Thus, the data were collected through fieldwork (favoring direct contact with the territory), and analyzed using four key dimensions namely ‘Form and legibility’, ‘Access and Connections’, ‘Uses and Activities’, then ‘Sociability and Identification’. The findings revealed that the neighborhoods that make up the CBD have lot of abandoned buildings, insufficient access routes, poor drainage system, high volume of traffic that cause lot of pollution and proliferation of solid waste that makes road network impermeable, and an aesthetic eyesore. In view of these, the study recommends a set of urban intervention strategy capable of guiding the planning and redesign of public spaces in Kano CBD in order to promote urban cohesion and a sustainable environment. 

scholarly journals Xenophobic attacks on foreign shop owners and street vendors in Louis Trichardt Central Business District, Limpopo Province

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kholofelo Mothibi ◽  
Cornelis Roelofse ◽  
Thompho Tshivhase
Keyword(s):  
Central Business District ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Physically Abused ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Contributory Factors ◽  
Police Action ◽  
Business District

Xenophobic attacks in South Africa in 2008 and 2015 sent shockwaves through the country and the world. In these events, around 70 people were killed while thousands were displaced; and, property and products of street vendors and shop owners were destroyed. This phenomenological research project is confined to Louis Trichardt in Limpopo Province wherefrom a cohort of foreign street vendors and shop owners were interviewed. The lived experiences of being verbally and physically abused as well as of some acquaintances being killed, has clearly left them traumatised and living in fear. The article finds that contributory factors to xenophobic attacks experienced by foreign shop owners and street vendors range from competition over scarce resources, stereotypes and inter-group anxiety. Finally, it offers some recommendations about education for South Africans and measured police action.

scholarly journals Rebuilding Sustainable Commuting in Christchurch? A mixed-methods study of the effects of workplace relocation on transport choice and emissions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kate Whitwell
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Mode Shift ◽  
Commute Time ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
Business District ◽  
The Impact

<p>Tackling the challenge of climate change will require rapid emissions reductions across all sectors, including transport. This study adds to the literature by investigating factors that may encourage sustainable transport choices at a time of change and therefore reduce emissions. A mix of quantitative and qualitative methods was used to explore the impact of a relocation of employees from several dispersed work locations back to one office building in the central business district on transport choices and carbon emissions in Christchurch, New Zealand.  This case study found that such a recentralisation of employment can result in employees making more sustainable transport choices and can contribute to decreases in transport emissions from commuting, even in a highly car-dependent city. The relocation led to a 12 percent rise in the proportion of employees commuting actively or by public transport and resulted in a significant drop in commuting emissions (16 percent). The primary contributing factor was the change in location of the office itself, reducing the average commuting distance and increasing accessibility to public transport and active travel. A further contributing factor was the perceived reduction in parking availability at the new location. Further results support the existing literature on barriers to sustainable transport, identifying any factor that impacts on the feasibility of the journey by alternative modes, such as commute time or safety, as a significant barrier to uptake. Overall findings suggest that relocating offices provides a good opportunity to encourage employees to consider changing to a more sustainable commute mode, and that significant numbers may make such a shift if commute time or distance are reduced. Realising substantial mode shift however will depend on cities providing feasible and efficient sustainable alternatives to driving a car to work.</p>

scholarly journals Exploring the Spatial-Temporal Relationship between Rainfall and Traffic Flow: A Case Study of Brisbane, Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanmin Qi ◽  
Zuduo Zheng ◽  
Dongyao Jia
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Inclement Weather ◽  
Real Time Traffic ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
Business District ◽  
The Impact

The impact of inclement weather on traffic flow has been extensively studied in the literature. However, little research has unveiled how local weather conditions affect real-time traffic flows both spatially and temporally. By analysing the real-time traffic flow data of Traffic Signal Controllers (TSCs) and weather information in Brisbane, Australia, this paper aims to explore weather’s impact on traffic flow, more specifically, rainfall’s impact on traffic flow. A suite of analytic methods has been applied, including the space-time cube, time-series clustering, and regression models at three different levels (i.e., comprehensive, location-specific, and aggregate). Our results reveal that rainfall would induce a change of the traffic flow temporally (on weekdays, Saturday, and Sunday and at various periods on each day) and spatially (in the transportation network). Particularly, our results consistently show that the traffic flow would increase on wet days, especially on weekdays, and that the urban inner space, such as the central business district (CBD), is more likely to be impacted by inclement weather compared with other suburbs. Such results could be used by traffic operators to better manage traffic in response to rainfall. The findings could also help transport planners and policy analysts to identify the key transport corridors that are most susceptible to traffic shifts in different weather conditions and establish more weather-resilient transport infrastructures accordingly.

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN KUALITAS TAMAN DENGGUNG DI SLEMAN SEBAGAI TAMAN RAMAH ANAK MELALUI PENGEMBANGAN KECERDASAN ANAK

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Anggar Prasetyo
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Business People ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
Motorized Vehicles

Abstract: Taman Denggung is the ones of green public space that was located in central government of Kabupaten Sleman, Yogyakarta. Taman Denggung as public space can be easily accesed by general public. All levels of society with various groups ranging from children until street vendors and those with commercial interests can access Taman Denggung. With the large number of users in Denggung Park, it causes insecurity towards visitors, especially children. Infertility is caused by the commercial activities of street vendors and business people, vehicles and community egos with motorized vehicles that undermine the development of children's intelligence. So that efforts are needed to improve the quality of Denggung Park to become a child-friendly park. This study uses the qualitative method with observation and interviews to get the existing data then completed through theoretical studies related to the development of children's intelligence. From this study, it was found that creating a Denggung Park into a child-friendly park needed an effort to improve zoning, which emphasized the safety of children, then from the zoning it began to be inserted and applied to each element of children's intelligence development.Keyword: child friendly, children's intelligence, green open spaceAbstrak: Taman Denggung merupakan salah satu ruang terbuka hijau yang terletak di pusat pemerintahan Kabupaten Sleman, Yogyakarta. Taman Denggung sebagai ruang publik dapat secara mudah diakses oleh mesyarakat umum. Seluruh lapisan masyarakat dengan berbagai kalangan mulai dari anak-anak hingga PKL serta yang memiliki kepentingan komersil dapat mengakses Taman Denggung. Dengan banyaknya pengguna pada Taman Denggung menimbulkan ketidak ramahan terhadap pengunjung, terutama anak anak. Ketidak ramahan diakibatkan karena aktifitas komersil PKL dan pembisnis wahana serta ego masyarakat dengan kendaraan bermotornya yang menggagu pengembangan kecerdasan anak. Dengan demikian diperlukan upaya untuk meningkatkan kualitas Taman Denggung menjadi taman ramah anak. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitastif dengan observasi dan wawancara untuk mendapatkan data kemudian diselesaikan melalui kajian teori berkaitan denngan pengembangan kecerdasan anak. Dari penelitian ini didapatkan hasil bahwa dalam membentuk Taman Denggung menjadi taman ramah anak diperlukan usaha pembenahan zonasi yang menitik beratkan terhadap keamanan anak kemudian dari zonasi tersebut mulai disisipkan dan diaplikasian setiap elemen pengebangan kecerdasan anak.Kata Kunci: ramah anak, kecerdasan anak, ruang terbuka hijau

scholarly journals HOLISTIC STRATEGY FOR URBAN DESIGN: A MICROCLIMATIC CONCERN TO SUSTAINABILITY

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-232
Author(s):  
Abu Yousuf Swapan
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Compatibility Study ◽  
Design Guideline ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Business District

The paper investigates the compatibility study and proposal for public space design strategy for Agrabad central business district area at Chittagong, Bangladesh. It examines the daylight factors, shadow parameters and thermal analysis to examine the performance level of proposed public spaces. The mentioned analysis leaned to optimized solutions through application of a thermal simulation program named ECOTECT. In the long run an overview of conclusions with design guideline from the investigated outcomes is cited. Findings from this investigation indicate possible optimized solution for Agrabad Central Business District (CBD). Resilient urban design concerns about the quality of built environment. Consideration of micro climatic factors can contribute to achieve sustainable and comfortable outdoor environment for better urban design. Learning from the global practice and application in a local context requires deeper understanding and knowledge. Traditional urban design methods cannot meet the needs of the citizens. This paper therefore provides a resilient analysis evolved from the local aspects, derived from Carmona’s ‘Values of urban design’. This work intends to open up a new frontier in the field of sustainable built enviroment, and expects to be useful for readers interested in urban design or related fields.

scholarly journals Analisis Tarif Parkir di Kawasan Central Business DistrictT Kota Pangkalpinang

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Revy Safitri
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Regional Income ◽  
Ability To Pay ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Business District ◽  
Parking Facilities ◽  
Center Area ◽  
Research Analysis

Central Business District of Pangkalpinang, Plaza Pangkapinang – Bangka Trade Center Area, generate high vehicles trip. The high of vehicles trip that go to this area has created incerasing parking spaces requirement. One of the factors that influences in limiting parking spaces and as source of regional income is parking fee. So, the parking fee in Plaza Pangkalpinang – Bangka Trade Center Area needs to be analyzed to find out the suitablity of exsiting parking fee. In this research, analysis of parking fee was reviewed based on Ability To Pay (ATP) dan Willingness To Pay (WTP). The result of analysis shows that the parking fee of motorcycle for both on-street parking and parking lot, and the parking fee of car for on-street parking need to be adjusted with increasing parking facilities. While, the parking fee of car on parking lot has suited if followed by increasing parking facilities.

scholarly journals Public Space for Street-Scape Theatrics. Guerrilla Spatial Tactics and Methods of Urban Hacking in Brisbane, Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Christopher James Cox ◽  
Mirko Guaralda
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Business District ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

It could be argued that architecture has an inherent social responsibility to enrich the urban and spatial environments for the city’s occupants. However, how we define quality, and how ‘places’ can be designed to be fair and equitable, catering for individuals on a humanistic and psychological level, is often not clearly addressed. Lefebvre discusses the idea of the ‘right to the city’; the belief that public space design should facilitate freedom of expression and incite a sense of spatial ownership for its occupants in public/commercial precincts. Lefebvre also points out the importance of sensory experience in the urban environment. “Street-scape theatrics” are performative activities that summarise these two concepts, advocating the ‘right to the city’ by way of art as well as providing sensual engagement for city users. Literature discusses the importance of Street-scape Theatrics however few sources attempt to discuss this topic in terms of how to design these spaces/places to enhance the city on both a sensory and political level. This research, grounded in political theory, investigates the case of street music, in particular busking, in the city of Brisbane, Australia. Street culture is a notion that already exists in Brisbane, but it is heavily controlled especially in central locations. This study discusses how sensory experience of the urban environment in Brisbane can be enriched through the design for busking; multiple case studies, interviews, observations and thematic mappings provide data to gather an understanding of how street performers see and understand the built form. Results are sometime surprisingly incongruous with general assumptions in regards to street artist as well as the established political and ideological framework, supporting the idea that the best and most effective way of urban hacking is working within the system. Ultimately, it was found that the Central Business District in Brisbane, Australia, could adopt certain political and design tactics which attempt to reconcile systematic quality control with freedom of expression into the public/commercial sphere, realism upheld. This can bridge the gap between the micro scale of the body and the macro of the political economy through freedom of expression, thus celebrating the idiosyncratic nature of the city.

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