Selected Diptera of City Park Kolmanka, Prešov (Slovakia)

In total 65 Diptera species from 20 families (Anisopodidae (2 spp.), Asilidae (1), Bibionidae (1), Clusiidae (1), Culicidae (8), Dolichopodidae (7), Drosophilidae (4), Dryomyzidae (1), Empididae (2), Heleomyzidae (5), Hybotidae (5), Lauxaniidae (4), Limoniidae (9), Opomyzidae (2), Pallopteridae (2), Psychodidae (6), Rhagionidae (2), Scatopsidae (1), Trichoceridae (1) and Ulidiidae (1)) were recorded. The species Drapetis flavipes Macquart, 1834 (Hybotidae), is recorded for the first time in Slovakia. Ten species belong among uncommon or rare (namely: Atypophthalmus (Atypophthalmus) inustus (Meigen, 1818), Calliopum splendidum Papp, 1978, Dioctria linearis (Fabricius, 1787), Cheilotrichia (Empeda) neglecta (Lackschewitz, 1927), Chrysopilus asiliformis (Preyssler, 1791), Ochlerotatus (Ochlerotatus) nigrinus (Eckstein 1918), Philosepedon (Philosepedon) austriacum Vaillant, 1974, Suillia variegata (Loew, 1862), Toxoneura modesta (Meigen, 1830) and Trichomyia urbica Curtis, 1839). On the other hand, two invasive species are also reported. Drosophila (Sophophora) suzukii (Matsumura, 1931) is an invasive crop pest and Aedes (Finlaya) japonicus japonicus (Theobald, 1901) is an invasive biting pest, a potential vector for various diseases. City parks are also important from the point of view of Diptera biodiversity and more attention needs to be paid to them.

Evaluating accessibility to city parks utilizing a space syntax method. A case study: city parks in Malang city

The government of Malang city has developed public space by increasing the number of city parks and revitalising the existing parks, functioned as active parks and city forests. Despite the development of individual city parks, about the debate has circulated regarding how the parks are integrated with the city’s spatial system. The focus of this research comprises the evaluation of city parks performance according to the parks’ relative position in the city’s spatial system. This study applies the two variables, including: the relative position of city parks and the visit frequency. The relative position is identified by employing the notion of spatial configuration and space syntax. The visit frequency is explored by utilizing questionnaires. The correlation between the two variables is investigated by using Pearson Product Moment. The research indicates that there is a correlation between the two variables. This finding additionally proves that the spatial configuration determined access to city parks, thereby encouraging the visits. Further, this study has navigated some other motives for the visits in addition to the access.

A child-friendly design for sustainable urban environment: a case study of Malang city parks

A child-friendly city environment contains elements of security, health and comfort, especially in the midst of the current pandemic. This paper aims to study the child-friendly designs in urban public spaces, especially city parks. The study objective was to find the level of performance and importance of child-friendly design in the case study of Indonesian city parks. The research stages include aspects of perceptions and expectations by users as well as development proposals based on expert opinions. Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) technique is used to determine the level of suitability, performance and importance of child-friendly design elements in the case study of city parks. The case study used is Trunojoyo Smart Park, Malang City. Analysis Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique is used for the proposed development of sustainable improvement of child-friendly spaces. The level of suitability of garden elements has the highest value above the average of 116.73%. While the pedestrian path element has the highest performance value and importance with scores of 169 and 156 respectively. The child-friendly design element that has the lowest performance is the sand game vehicle (132). Two child-friendly design elements that become development priorities for both users and experts are safe spaces and play equipment which have a suitability rate of 113.92% and 108.90%, respectively, and the experts’ priority values are 0.117 and 0.083, respectively.

Identification of Face Mask With YOLOv4 Based on Outdoor Video

The use of face masks in the current era is one of the special regulations in many countries including Indonesia to prevent the spread of coronavirus. However, not all people strongly agree to wear masks because they feel uncomfortable to wear even in crowded places require the use of masks such as shopping malls, hospitals, factories, stations and others by checking manually. Therefore, in the study proposed automatic detection of masks with YOLOv4 with the stage of data collection recording community activities in crowded places, labeling images of masks and non masks. The labelling results were conducted in training that resulted in 90.3% accuracy in the 2000 ierasi, the last of which was video testing in three different crowd locations: taxes, city parks and highways. Based on the test results, YOLOv4 can detect masks and non masks on videos with different obstruction conditions such as people wearing helmets, hand obstacles. However, for the detection of people with tissue obstruction conditions and improper position of wearing masks has not resulted in good detection.

Urban landscape for birdwatching activities

Urban landscapes are usually dominated by built spaces and human-made vegetation, which different from natural landscapes. This difference will affect the composition of birds that can be found in the urban landscape. For birdwatchers, birds are the main object in birdwatching activities. The objectives of this paper were to analyze the feasibility of urban landscapes for birdwatching activities and find out the characteristics of urban landscapes favored by birdwatchers in four cities in Java (Bogor, Sukabumi, Bandung, and Surabaya). Birdwatchers’ site preference and perception were surveyed through online questionnaires in February through May 2020 (n=1,247 respondents). Surveyed data revealed that birdwatching sites’ size varied between 0.05 and 76.82 ha, mainly urban forests and city parks. Most of the urban landscape was habitat to various bird species typical of the urban landscape (e.g., Eurasian tree-sparrow, Cave swiftlet, Black-headed Bulbul). Raptors (e.g., Black-thighed Falconet) are found in several locations. Among the respondents, 25 % (n=309) had previously conducted birdwatching activities in urban landscapes, while 72.0% (n=808) expressed their interest in birdwatching in urban landscapes, indicating that urban landscapes was feasible for birdwatching. The most favorite locations were the Bogor Botanical Gardens, Darmaga Research Forest (both in Bogor), Merdeka Field Park, Cikundul Agrotourism Area (Sukabumi), Bandung Zoo, Babakan Siliwangi City Forest (Bandung), Bungkul Park, and Flora Park (Surabaya). Characteristics of sites favored by birdwatchers were a shady area, not noisy location, and any facilities for birdwatching. The diversity of bird species did not became the main reason.

KARAKTERISTIK PENGGUNA RUANG TERBUKA PUBLIK PADA TAMAN KOTA DI PALEMBANG

ABSTRAK. Ruang terbuka publik digunakan masyarakat kota untuk melakukan kegiatan sosialisasi. Taman kota merupakan salah satu elemen perkotaan yang memberikan pelayanan spasial pada masyarakat dan meningkatkan kualitas lingkungan kota. Pelayanan ruang kota yang berkualitas adalah pelayanan yang dapat memberikan kenyamanan dan memenuhi kebutuhan pengguna ruang. Dengan kenyataan ini maka perlu dilakukan studi untuk melihat karaktersitik pengguna yang akan menjadi pedoman pengembangan ruang terbuka pada Taman kota yang sesuai dengan karakter pengguna. Metode kualitatif ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui karakteristik pelaku kegiatan pada setting ruang taman kota dengan mengandalkan survei pengamatan di lapangan. Lalu hasil survei akan dikompilasi dengan analisa deskriptif untuk melihat karakter pengguna antar taman kota. Fokus penelitian terdapat pada karakter pengguna ruang terbuka publik pada taman kota. Hasil penelitian menyatakan bahwa karakter pengguna dan jenis kegiatan dipengaruhi oleh karakter fisik taman yaitu berupa lokasi, setting ruang, elemen pendukung taman dan sistem keamanan. Ruang terbuka publik yang memberikan kenyamanan terhadapt pengguna adalah terdapat banyak teduhan, pedestrian yang baik, tempat duduk, arena bermain anak, tempat jualan makanan dan kondisi taman yang terawat. Karakter pengguna pada taman kota sangat beragam mulai dari anak- anak, remaja hingga dewasa dimana alasan utama datang ke taman adalah untuk refreshing, makan dan berolahraga. Kata kunci: Karakteristik, ruang terbuka publik, taman kota ABSTRACT. Public open space is an essential requirement for society, which functions as a place to socialization activities. City park is a one of the urban design elements that provide spatial services to the community and improve the quality of the city environment. Good quality city space services can provide comfort and meet the needs of space users. With this fact, its nessecary to conduct a research to observe the charactheristic of users in physical setting space at city parks that will guide the development of city park according the users character. The result of the physical’s character spacial observatioan will be compilaton with descriptive analysis to find the users character In city parks. The focus of the research is on the users character of the public open space in city park. The result showed that the characteristic of park, which including the location, the setting of space, the elements support of park and security system affect to the users character. Indicators of public open space that provide comfort to users, namely: there is a lot of shade in the vegetation, good pedestrian, seating, children's playground, where to sell food and well-maintained garden conditions. The variety of User characters in city park ranging from teenagers, adults to families, found a tendency to interest users to come to the park to refreshing, eating and exercising. Keywords: characteristic, public open space, city park