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

Abstract

Social and cultural influences the community in many ways either directly orindirectly. Thus, this paper argues about the community perception focusingon the age of youth towards the Public Park in Kota Bharu regarding theirexpectation and their emotions upon this public park. Questionnaire regardingthe youth’s perception about the relationship between the feelings and thePublic Park utilization has been done as well as using observation and SemanticDifferential Method. The result shows by the exploratory factor analysis basedon eigenvalue cut off resulting four components regard to the facilitiesprovided in Taman Perbandaran Tengku Anis with a total cumulative 72.324%while there are three components explained their feelings with total cumulative72.923%. Consequently, the expectations and feelings of the youth as the usersor 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 spacein terms of the physical environment designation that offered plenty of humanactivities onto it, the youth have their own on this public space.