“SAFE!”: YOUTH PERCEPTION OF TAMAN PERBANDARAN TENGKU ANIS, KOTA BHARU

Abstract

Social and cultural influences the community in many ways either directly or indirectly. Thus, this paper argues about the community perception focusing on the age of youth towards the Public Park in Kota Bharu regarding their expectation and their emotions upon this public park. Questionnaire regarding the youth’s perception about the relationship between the feelings and the Public Park utilization has been done as well as using observation and Semantic Differential Method. The result shows by the exploratory factor analysis based on eigenvalue cut off resulting four components regard to the facilities provided in Taman Perbandaran Tengku Anis with a total cumulative 72.324% while there are three components explained their feelings with total cumulative 72.923%. Consequently, the expectations and feelings of the youth as the users or visitors at this park is related to the component attractions of this park. Although this park can be considered as a successful urban public open space in terms of the physical environment designation that offered plenty of human activities onto it, the youth have their own on this public space.