Pengusaha premis penginapan Bumiputra Melayu Anak Kelantan: Keupayaan merealisasi perancangan pembangunan

Pembangunan premis penginapan pesisir pantai telah membangun dengan pesatnya di Negeri Kelantan pada awal tahun 2000 sehingga sekarang. Pelbagai jenis premis penginapan telah dibina termasuklah secara kecil-kecilan dan sederhana terutamanya oleh Bumiputra Melayu Anak Kelantan. Jabatan Perancang Bandar & Desa telah mengeluarkan satu garis panduan dalam membangunkan kawasan pantai. Namun begitu, sejauhmanakah garis panduan tersebut dipatuhi? Pematuhan ini akan mewujudkan rangkaian perancangan yang berkesan seterusnya mewujudkan kawasan pembangunan yang mampan. Penulisan memfokus kepada pematuhan dan pemakaian pengusaha premis penginapan tersebut dalam membangunkannya. Perbincangan akan melihat kepada pembangunan fizikal yang telah dibangunkan oleh pengusaha samada bangunan, infrastruktur dan kawasan lapang. Kertas kerja ini menyingkap keupayaan pengusaha premis penginapan dalam merancang pembangunan melalui pematuhan kriteria perancangan. Kajian dijalankan dengan menemuduga premis penginapan terpilih dan Pusat Hentian Setempat (OSC) Pihak Berkuasa Tempatan terlibat melalui borang kaji selidik kepada pengusaha dan pemerhatian terhadap pembangunan fizikal

Adolescent use of urban parks and their social environment consequences

Parks increase their users’ health and well-being because they offer settings suitable for physical activity, social interaction, enjoying nature, etc. Applying the socio-physical approach, “park use” behaviour is influenced by several environmental characteristics, including physical environment, social environment, and cultural environment. This study seeks to understand the influence of park social environment based on the perspectives of adolescent park users aged15-18. A qualitative study (interviews) with 17 adolescents aged 15-18 (including male and female) shows that the social environment of an urban park plays an important role among adolescents. The research contributes to understanding how the social environment influence on park use and thus assists urban planners in measuring key targeted actions to improve the perception of social environment among adolescents to increase park use

The Malaysian Garden Concept Design Branding: Whose Role is it Anyway?

Two decades ago, Malaysian leaders had expressed their desire to have a garden design concept that can represent Malaysia. This study explores the Malaysian Garden Concept (MGC) branding from the perspectives of experts recognized by the National Landscape Department (NLD). This study applies a qualitative research method, in which researchers have interviewed respondents using specific effective techniques. The MGC is meant for public parks and designed for all uses but has some significant issues. The finding found that intensive promotion, marketing, and advertising can help implement the concept of Malaysian Garden in the future. Keywords: Malaysian Garden; National Identity; Landscape Architecture; Concept Branding  eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6iSI4.291

Branding the Capital City through Multi-Perspective Approach: The Case of ‘Enjoy Jakarta’ Campaign

Place branding has become a powerful tool for promoting cities and regions. Unfortunately, many urban managers have been preoccupied with creating slogans and logos in implementing place branding. This has eventually limited the contribution of place branding towards tourism development, for which most place branding is targeted. This study aims to determine the factors that influence the successfulness of city branding programs in promoting tourism. This study applies qualitative methods by employing a series of in-depth interviews with relevant stakeholders comprising the government, private sector, destination management staff, tourism associations, academics, and the public. Using Enjoy Jakarta's branding campaign, this study found seven contributing factors that may impact the implementation of the campaign. Leadership, stakeholder collaboration, public management and departmental coordination are classified as tourism governance. On the other hand, attraction, accessibility and promotion are classified as tourism components. The study found that the governance factor is the most influential in the success of city branding programs. Tourism governance determines how tourism components may be implemented to achieve the goal of city branding

Branding the Capital City through Multi-Perspective Approach: The Case of ‘Enjoy Jakarta’ Campaign

Place branding has become a powerful tool for promoting cities and regions. Unfortunately, many urban managers have been preoccupied with creating slogans and logos in implementing place branding. This has eventually limited the contribution of place branding towards tourism development, for which most place branding is targeted. This study aims to determine the factors that influence the successfulness of city branding programs in promoting tourism. This study applies qualitative methods by employing a series of in-depth interviews with relevant stakeholders comprising the government, private sector, destination management staff, tourism associations, academics, and the public. Using Enjoy Jakarta's branding campaign, this study found seven contributing factors that may impact the implementation of the campaign. Leadership, stakeholder collaboration, public management and departmental coordination are classified as tourism governance. On the other hand, attraction, accessibility and promotion are classified as tourism components. The study found that the governance factor is the most influential in the success of city branding programs. Tourism governance determines how tourism components may be implemented to achieve the goal of city branding

Open space development planning in Malaysia: Issues and problems

This study aimed to identify and understand the problems faced by local authorities in the development planning of open spaces in Peninsular Malaysia. The study focused on the issues and problem encountered by 98 local authorities in that are governed under the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 (Act 172). To obtain information on the preparation of open spaces that involves development planning, and policy enforcement, questionnaire survey was distributed to 456 respondents which obtained a response rate of 52.6% (n=240). The study found that the availability of land, lack of funding and policy compliance are the main obstacles hindering local authorities to provide better service to the public. This study recommends several measures to address the issues in the hope that it will help the local authorities to better manage and provide long term sustainable open spaces

City branding in Indonesia: the urgency of public communication, involvement, and inter-sectoral collaboration

Contemporary cities are facing various challenges, both internally and externally. Indonesian cities are not exempted from this phenomenon. In light of this, city branding has become a widespread practice undertaken by most city managers to attract visitors, tourists, and investors. This study is trying to capture the city branding implementation in Indonesia and suggests several improvement strategies in tourism development. This study is using content analysis to explore existing literature on city branding implementation in several cities in Indonesia over the last ten years. A summary of more than thirty studies is provided along with the content analysis. The finding of these studies gives a significant contribution to the field of city branding that focuses on practical operational in social and governance dimensions in the local context. It shows that the limitation of understanding on city branding concept from the local authorities in many cities has resulted in less efficient and effective branding. City branding in most cities in Indonesia was trapped merely in making slogan and logos with less consideration in public aspirations and local identities. In addition, the common problem of lack of intersectoral coordination has resulted in a situation where branding has been undertaken solely by the tourist management sectors without proper support from other sectors. This study emphasizes the urgency of public involvement and inter-sectoral collaboration in ensuring city branding successfulness

BUILT ENVIRONMENT ROLE IN CHANGING MOTHERS PERCEPTION ON CHILDREN’S WALKING INDEPENDENTLY TO SCHOOL

Women have a great significance in their children's lives from the moment they are born. The choice that mothers make regarding their children's mode of travelling to school will have a significant impact on how those children will think about walking and cycling in the future. The purpose of this study is to identify the perspectives of mothers towards allowing their children to school by walking in an area that is deemed suitable for such trip in our discussion on the nation’s future generation towards walking and not depending on private vehicles as the main mode of travelling. A focus group discussion, also known as FGD, took place in Taman Ilmu, which is in Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang. As a result of this study, using thematic analysis to analyse the results of conversation during the FGD session and collective mapping, we discovered four (4) themes of mother’s perspectives towards their children walking to school, which are as follows: (1) confidence and trust; (2) safety; (3) age and gender; and (4) weather. In summary, the built environment can be described as a solution to the 'out of control' scenario in which government and parental roles are effective in resolving the issue of children walking independently to school

Potensi premis penginapan kecil dan sederhana dalam pembangunan pelancongan pantai di Kelantan

Industri pelancongan di Kelantan merupakan satu industri yang penting pada tahun 2012. Anggaran dalam menarik enam juta pelancong sempena TMK12 akan memberi cabaran terutamanya kepada penyediaan premis penginapan yang mencukupi terutama bagi premis penginapan kecil dan sederhana. Pembangunan premis penginapan kecil sederhana mampu memberi tarikan berlainan kepada pelancong terutamanya yang terletak di kawasan desa berpantai. Oleh itu, kertas kerja ini membincangkan beberapa aspek penting dalam perancangan infrastruktur premis penginapan kecil sederhana. Fokus ialah kepada aspek infrasturuktur kerana ia merupakan tarikan utama dalam industri pelancongan di Kelantan terutamanya semasa Tahun Melawat Kelantan 2012. Oleh itu, perbincangan ini menyarankan beberapa idea dalam menambah baik penyediaan infrastruktur kepada pelancong. Kajian dijalankan dengan menemuduga pengunjung premis penginapan terpilih melalui borang kaji selidik dan pemerhatian terhadap pengguna premis penginapan tersebut. Hasil kajian mendapati kemudahan elektrik yang disediakan oleh TNB dan bentuk promosi yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan bakal mempengaruhi pengunjung dan pengguna untuk datang kembali menginap. Sebagai kesimpulan, kemudahan penyediaan elektrik oleh TNB dan bentuk promosi perlu dipertingkatkan bagi mempengaruhi penginap untuk datang kembali dan menarik pelancong untuk menginap di kawasan kajian

Children's Experience of the Physical Outdoor Environment in Urban Neighborhoods and the Implications for Planning and Policy

The important of outdoor physical environment to the development of children can never be questioned, since children spend large amount of their time outdoor as compared to adults. Children are vulnerable to their conditions of the physical environment and its quality affects their overall behavior patterns. Children are well known to play everywhere and play with everything. But for urban children, their movement and their play opportunities are often restricted by traffic and unsafe environment. Today the provision of children outdoor play areas i.e children playgrounds or open spaces, has become integrated into the planning process in most of our residential development. How well it is furnished is an indication of the value that society places on children development. We are fortunate to have such services but are they conducive enough to cater the need for children or do they meet their expectations' This paper discusses the existing children outdoor facilities developed out of local planning practices. Do these facilities held the potential for our children's physical development' How would the children benefits from their playing environment' Are children happy with their play spaces or do parents concern about their children play opportunity' The paper examines the need to create a more conducive play space beyond the quantitative preferences and guidelines. It further highlights the need for community participation in creating a more functionalized playground