Proceedings of the 2nd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, BIS-HSS 2020, 18 November 2020, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia

Research Article

Impact of the City Park Revitalization and the Street Vendor Organization on the Level of Happiness of Pematangsiantar City Residents

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.18-11-2020.2311679,
        author={Bahrudi Efendi  Damanik and Eka  Irawan},
        title={Impact of the City Park Revitalization and the Street Vendor Organization on the Level of Happiness of Pematangsiantar City Residents},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, BIS-HSS 2020, 18 November 2020, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={BIS-HSS},
        year={2021},
        month={9},
        keywords={city park revitalization street vendor arrangement happiness},
        doi={10.4108/eai.18-11-2020.2311679}
    }
    
  • Bahrudi Efendi Damanik
    Eka Irawan
    Year: 2021
    Impact of the City Park Revitalization and the Street Vendor Organization on the Level of Happiness of Pematangsiantar City Residents
    BIS-HSS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.18-11-2020.2311679
Bahrudi Efendi Damanik1,*, Eka Irawan2
  • 1: Manajemen Informatika, AMIK Tunas Bangsa, Pematangsiantar, Indonesia
  • 2: Sistem Informasi, STIKOM Tunas Bangsa, Pematangsiantar, Indonesia
*Contact email: bahrudiefendi@amiktunasbangsa.ac.id

Abstract

Merdeka Square is one of the area in the heart of Pematangsiantar, a child-friendly open public space which has been around for hundreds of years to be a low-cost stress realving site for the people. The purpose of this study was to discover the impacts of the Revitalization of Child Friendly Open Public Space, the city park, the Street Vendors Arrangement on the happiness level of the city residents. This research is an associative type, with a sample of 272 respondents, using incidental sampling. The results of this study ”have postive and significant effects on the residents’ happiness: The park revitalization, t-count> t-table (5.046> 1.969), the partial arrangement of street vendors, t-count> t-table (8,452> 1,969) and between the park revitalization variable and street vendor, F-count> F-table (246,889> 3,029). It turns out that happiness does not mean travelling, spending a lot of money on transportation, hotels, etc., but visiting a good City Park is another choice.