By: Paulus Bagus Sugiyono & Neo Hui Yun Rebecca
In Yogyakarta and Singapore, youth movements have sprouted to address the negative impacts of rapidly changing cityscapes.
Urban dwellers often face rapid changes in their cityscapes. Several changes to urban spaces have been made for developmental purposes, spanning from the building of new infrastructure to the demolition of existing urban landscapes. This so-called “commodification of spaces”, with its extensive spread across most cities, has wreaked severe impacts on urban dwellers’ natural surroundings and lives. Given that the current generation is the main recipient of such effects, civil society, in particular urban youth, has taken the initiative to use creative methods to advocate and prevent further loss of their urban landscapes. Both Yogyakarta and Singapore have experienced ongoing changes in their urban landscape, and each is contextualised within their country’s own development progress. The tangible and intangible losses from these developmental changes have led to unique responses by urban youth […]
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