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    The Effect of Relocating Street Hawkers on Urban Vitality in the Malioboro Tourism Area, Yogyakarta

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    Since the 1970s, street hawkers have considered Malioboro an icon of the city of Yogyakarta. Malioboro has become increasingly crowded. Seeing this condition, a decision was made to relocate the street hawkers from the Malioboro corridor. This decision has pros and cons; some consider street hawkers to be a place for creativity, a sector that greatly affects the level of crowds and is the main attraction for the Malioboro area. However, few people consider it a barrier to the original face of the Malioboro corridor. Urban vitality is an important aspect of increasing visitor interest; it relates to comfort, security, safety, and fun as the main indicators. This study aims to examine the impact of the relocation decision on the vitality of Malioboro as a tourist area. Using qualitative methods, this study compared the reality through field surveys and online questionnaires that had been distributed for one week to a total of 61 respondents who had ever visited Malioboro with the theory of urban vitality and urban tourism precincts. To get a conclusion on whether the Yogyakarta city government’s decision to relocate the street hawkers from Malioboro Street can maintain or even reduce Malioboro’s urban vitality.Sejak tahun 1970-an, pedagang kaki lima menganggap Malioboro sebagai ikon kota Yogyakarta, Malioboro menjadi semakin ramai, beberapa pengunjung menganggap kehadiran PKL ini mengurangi keindahan jalan Malioboro. Melihat kondisi tersebut, diambil keputusan untuk merelokasi pedagang kaki limadari koridor Jalan Malioboro. Keputusan ini memberikan pro dan kontra, beberapa menganggap pedagang asongan sebagai wadah kreativitas, sektor yang sangat mempengaruhi tingkat keramaian dan menjadi daya tarik tersendiri bagi kawasan Malioboro. Namun, tidak sedikit yang menganggapnya sebagai penghalang wajah asli koridor Malioboro. Urban vitality merupakan aspek penting dalam meningkatkan minat pengunjung, hal ini berkaitan dengan kenyamanan, keamanan, keselamatan, dan kesenangan sebagai indikator utama khususnya di kawasan wisata. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji dampak keputusan relokasi terhadap vitalitas Malioboro sebagai kawasan wisata. Dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif, penelitian ini akan membandingkan realitas melalui survei lapangan dan kuesioner online, dengan teori urban vitality dan kawasan wisata kota. Untuk mendapatkan kesimpulan,  apakah vitalitas Jalan Malioboro sebagai kawasan wisata meningkat? Dan apakah hal tersebut berpengaruh terhadap peningkatanpengunjung

    Second-Person Surveillance: Politics of User Implication in Digital Documentaries

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    This dissertation analyzes digital documentaries that utilize second-person address and roleplay to make users feel implicated in contemporary refugee crises, mass incarceration in the U.S., and state and corporate surveillances. Digital documentaries are seemingly more interactive and participatory than linear film and video documentary as they are comprised of a variety of auditory, visual, and written media, utilize networked technologies, and turn the documentary audience into a documentary user. I draw on scholarship from documentary, game, new media, and surveillance studies to analyze how second-person address in digital documentaries is configured through user positioning and direct address within the works themselves, in how organizations and creators frame their productions, and in how users and players respond in reviews, discussion forums, and Let’s Plays. I build on Michael Rothberg’s theorization of the implicated subject to explore how these digital documentaries bring the user into complicated relationality with national and international crises. Visually and experientially implying that users bear responsibility to the subjects and subject matter, these works can, on the one hand, replicate modes of liberal empathy for suffering, distant “others” and, on the other, simulate one’s own surveillant modes of observation or behavior to mirror it back to users and open up one’s offline thoughts and actions as a site of critique. This dissertation charts how second-person address shapes and limits the political potentialities of documentary projects and connects them to a lineage of direct address from educational and propaganda films, museum exhibits, and serious games. By centralizing the user’s individual experience, the interventions that second-person digital documentaries can make into social discourse change from public, institution-based education to more privatized forms of sentimental education geared toward personal edification and self-realization. Unless tied to larger initiatives or movements, I argue that digital documentaries reaffirm a neoliberal politics of individual self-regulation and governance instead of public education or collective, social intervention. Chapter one focuses on 360-degree virtual reality (VR) documentaries that utilize the feeling of presence to position users as if among refugees and as witnesses to refugee experiences in camps outside of Europe and various dwellings in European cities. My analysis of Clouds Over Sidra (Gabo Arora and Chris Milk 2015) and The Displaced (Imraan Ismail and Ben C. Solomon 2015) shows how these VR documentaries utilize observational realism to make believable and immersive their representations of already empathetic refugees. The empathetic refugee is often young, vulnerable, depoliticized and dehistoricized and is a well-known trope in other forms of humanitarian media that continues into VR documentaries. Forced to Flee (Zahra Rasool 2017), I am Rohingya (Zahra Rasool 2017), So Leben Flüchtlinge in Berlin (Berliner Morgenpost 2017), and Limbo: A Virtual Experience of Waiting for Asylum (Shehani Fernando 2017) disrupt easy immersions into realistic-looking VR experiences of stereotyped representations and user identifications and, instead, can reflect back the user’s political inaction and surveillant modes of looking. Chapter two analyzes web- and social media messenger-based documentaries that position users as outsiders to U.S. mass incarceration. Users are noir-style co-investigators into the crime of the prison-industrial complex in Fremont County, Colorado in Prison Valley: The Prison Industry (David Dufresne and Philippe Brault 2009) and co-riders on a bus transporting prison inmates’ loved ones for visitations to correctional facilities in Upstate New York in A Temporary Contact (Nirit Peled and Sara Kolster 2017). Both projects construct an experience of carceral constraint for users to reinscribe seeming “outside” places, people, and experiences as within the continuation of the racialized and classed politics of state control through mass incarceration. These projects utilize interfaces that create a tension between replicating an exploitative hierarchy between non-incarcerated users and those subject to mass incarceration while also de-immersing users in these experiences to mirror back the user’s supposed distance from this mode of state regulation. Chapter three investigates a type of digital game I term dataveillance simulation games, which position users as surveillance agents in ambiguously dystopian nation-states and force users to use their own critical thinking and judgment to construct the criminality of state-sanctioned surveillance targets. Project Perfect Citizen (Bad Cop Studios 2016), Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You (Osmotic Studios 2016), and Papers, Please (Lucas Pope 2013) all create a dual empathy: players empathize with bureaucratic surveillance agents while empathizing with surveillance targets whose emails, text messages, documents, and social media profiles reveal them to be “normal” people. I argue that while these games show criminality to be a construct, they also utilize a racialized fear of the loss of one’s individual privacy to make players feel like they too could be surveillance targets. Chapter four examines personalized digital documentaries that turn users and their data into the subject matter. Do Not Track (Brett Gaylor 2015), A Week with Wanda (Joe Derry Hall 2019), Stealing Ur Feelings (Noah Levenson 2019), Alfred Premium (Joël Ronez, Pierre Corbinais, and Émilie F. Grenier 2019), How They Watch You (Nick Briz 2021), and Fairly Intelligent™ (A.M. Darke 2021) track, monitor, and confront users with their own online behavior to reflect back a corporate surveillance that collects, analyzes, and exploits user data for profit. These digital documentaries utilize emotional fear- and humor-based appeals to persuade users that these technologies are controlling them, shaping their desires and needs, and dehumanizing them through algorithmic surveillance

    Blank : a ghostly story

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    This work is the first seven chapters of a middle grade or young adult novel in the urban fantasy genre. These chapters introduce the two main characters and some supporting characters. Foremost among these supporting characters are an aunt, a grandfather, and a ghost. The grandfather and the ghost have peripheral roles in the contained chapters, but become more involved in the plot as the novel continues. The events in the chapters first provide necessary interactions between the main characters. Starting in the first chapter, their interactions cause these characters to bond and begin a friendship. The friendship will be the driving force of the main plot. These chapters also contain incidents and information that will become relevant later on

    The Effect of Relocating Street Hawkers on Urban Vitality in the Malioboro Tourism Area, Yogyakarta

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    Since the 1970s, street hawkers have considered Malioboro an icon of the city of Yogyakarta. Malioboro has become increasingly crowded. Seeing this condition, a decision was made to relocate the street hawkers from the Malioboro corridor. This decision has pros and cons; some consider street hawkers to be a place for creativity, a sector that greatly affects the level of crowds and is the main attraction for the Malioboro area. However, few people consider it a barrier to the original face of the Malioboro corridor. Urban vitality is an important aspect of increasing visitor interest; it relates to comfort, security, safety, and fun as the main indicators. This study aims to examine the impact of the relocation decision on the vitality of Malioboro as a tourist area. Using qualitative methods, this study compared the reality through field surveys and online questionnaires that had been distributed for one week to a total of 61 respondents who had ever visited Malioboro with the theory of urban vitality and urban tourism precincts. To get a conclusion on whether the Yogyakarta city government’s decision to relocate the street hawkers from Malioboro Street can maintain or even reduce Malioboro’s urban vitality.Sejak tahun 1970-an, pedagang kaki lima menganggap Malioboro sebagai ikon kota Yogyakarta, Malioboro menjadi semakin ramai, beberapa pengunjung menganggap kehadiran PKL ini mengurangi keindahan jalan Malioboro. Melihat kondisi tersebut, diambil keputusan untuk merelokasi pedagang kaki limadari koridor Jalan Malioboro. Keputusan ini memberikan pro dan kontra, beberapa menganggap pedagang asongan sebagai wadah kreativitas, sektor yang sangat mempengaruhi tingkat keramaian dan menjadi daya tarik tersendiri bagi kawasan Malioboro. Namun, tidak sedikit yang menganggapnya sebagai penghalang wajah asli koridor Malioboro. Urban vitality merupakan aspek penting dalam meningkatkan minat pengunjung, hal ini berkaitan dengan kenyamanan, keamanan, keselamatan, dan kesenangan sebagai indikator utama khususnya di kawasan wisata. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji dampak keputusan relokasi terhadap vitalitas Malioboro sebagai kawasan wisata. Dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif, penelitian ini akan membandingkan realitas melalui survei lapangan dan kuesioner online, dengan teori urban vitality dan kawasan wisata kota. Untuk mendapatkan kesimpulan,  apakah vitalitas Jalan Malioboro sebagai kawasan wisata meningkat? Dan apakah hal tersebut berpengaruh terhadap peningkatanpengunjung

    Take back our city: reclaiming shopping malls in Hong Kong

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    Shopping malls have replaced traditional public spaces and become an integral part of urban life in many cities. This paper seeks to explore the role of shopping malls as protest sites in Hong Kong during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill protest movement in 2019. As the protests decentralised and filtered throughout the city, shopping malls became sites of protest and battlegrounds between riot police and protesters. In addition to singing and chanting, organising sit-ins, and exhibiting protest art inside shopping malls, protesters also confronted mall employees as well as disrupted businesses. Based on information gathered through media reports, planning and policy documents, as well as ethnographic observations, this paper aims to examine the role of shopping malls in the urban development of Hong Kong, their function as public spaces during the protest movement, and how the politicisation of shopping malls shaped and sustained the protest movement. This paper contends that the protesters’ appropriation of shopping malls not only represented an important first step of reclaiming the right to the city, but also exemplified how such struggle and resistance can be extended beyond traditional protest sites and into different everyday spaces

    Measuring the impact of COVID-19 on hospital care pathways

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    Care pathways in hospitals around the world reported significant disruption during the recent COVID-19 pandemic but measuring the actual impact is more problematic. Process mining can be useful for hospital management to measure the conformance of real-life care to what might be considered normal operations. In this study, we aim to demonstrate that process mining can be used to investigate process changes associated with complex disruptive events. We studied perturbations to accident and emergency (A &E) and maternity pathways in a UK public hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. Co-incidentally the hospital had implemented a Command Centre approach for patient-flow management affording an opportunity to study both the planned improvement and the disruption due to the pandemic. Our study proposes and demonstrates a method for measuring and investigating the impact of such planned and unplanned disruptions affecting hospital care pathways. We found that during the pandemic, both A &E and maternity pathways had measurable reductions in the mean length of stay and a measurable drop in the percentage of pathways conforming to normative models. There were no distinctive patterns of monthly mean values of length of stay nor conformance throughout the phases of the installation of the hospital’s new Command Centre approach. Due to a deficit in the available A &E data, the findings for A &E pathways could not be interpreted

    Overtourism in Lokawisata Baturraden, Banyumas After the Covid-19 Pandemic

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    Many nations with advantages in the tourist industry have encountered the overtourism issue since the COVID-19 epidemic. The term “revenge tourism” or “revenge traveling” refers to a secret desire to travel or a desire to travel that has been hindered for the previous two years by limitations on community social movements due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Overtourism is a problem that travel destinations face, and it may have a detrimental effect on sustainability and environmental concerns. This problem also affects Banyumas Regency, which counts tourism as one of its primary industries. This study aims to evaluate the local government’s efforts to curb overtourism in the Banyumas region. In order to combat the problem of over-tourism caused by retaliation tourism and overpromising, the Banyumas district administration has adopted several initiatives. The Banyumas district government’s strategy for coping with the overtourism situation is described analytically using public policy analysis and the ideas of sustainable and responsible tourism. This article’s technique is descriptive-analytic, drawing on secondary data from sources including academic journals, sessions, reference books, the internet, and other supplementary resources. This study offers a fresh perspective on overtourism in the Banyumas area, showing that once COVID-19’s development slowed, people’s desire to visit tourist spots generally increased, leading to an excessive mass accumulation at each destination. Due to the buildup of too many visitors, Banyumas, a location that caters mainly to nature tourism, is in danger of suffering environmental harm as well as other problems that come along with it. Keywords: overtourism, environmental damage, public policy, sustainable touris

    Recollecting Identity: Food, Culture, Space and Place in the Street Markets of Hong Kong

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    The research investigates the importance of culture and placemaking in defining food urbanism in Hong Kong with a culture at risk of disappearing. Considering current revitalization projects and the removal of local street markets, the research analyzes food urbanism through the lens of food and culture, in relationship to space and place. Focusing on the street markets and its disappearance over the years, the research looks at understanding food urbanism as a cultural structure. The project provides an insight to the establishment of street markets throughout history, placing importance on its relationship to the cultural and placemaking aspects of food urbanism

    Everyday Streets

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    Everyday streets are both the most used and most undervalued of cities’ public spaces. They are places of social aggregation, bringing together those belonging to different classes, genders, ages, ethnicities and nationalities. They comprise not just the familiar outdoor spaces that we use to move and interact but also urban blocks, interiors, depths and hinterlands, which are integral to their nature and contribute to their vitality. Everyday streets are physically and socially shaped by the lives of the people and things that inhabit them through a reciprocal dance with multiple overlapping temporalities. The primary focus of this book is an inclusive approach to understanding and designing everyday streets. It offers an analysis of many aspects of everyday streets from cities around the globe. From the regular rectilinear urban blocks of Montreal to the military-regulated narrow alleyways of Naples, and from the resilient market streets of London to the crammed commercial streets of Chennai, the streets in this book were all conceived with a certain level of control. Everyday Streets is a palimpsest of methods, perspectives and recommendations that together provide a solid understanding of everyday streets, their degree of inclusiveness, and to what extent they could be more inclusive
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