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The Square as an Outdoor Market Space: Exploring the potentials of Dataran Merdeka

The Asian Journal of Behavioural Studies

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Title The Square as an Outdoor Market Space: Exploring the potentials of Dataran Merdeka
 
Creator Zakariya, Khalilah
Harun, Nor Zalina
 
Subject culture; heritage; market; square; urban
 
Description This exploratory paper presents the potentials of appropriating a temporary weekend market adjacent to a historic square as an informal activity to encourage people to engage more with Dataran Merdeka as their historic place.  From employing methods of observations, mapping and interviews, the findings from this paper reveal how locating temporary market activity at Dataran Merdeka might activate this historic square as a lively social space while tapping into the existing event culture. This study suggests that the juxtaposition between the historic and the everyday can ascribe new meaning to the layers of the city’s heritage to support cultural sustainability.Keywords: culture; heritage; market; square; urbaneISSN 2398-4295 © 2018. 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) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia  
 
Publisher e-International Publishing House (e-IPH) Ltd., UK
 
Contributor to International Islamic University Malaysia
Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia
 
Date 2018-03-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ajbes.e-iph.co.uk/index.php/ajbes/article/view/93
10.21834/ajbes.v3i10.93
 
Source Asian Journal of Behavioural Studies; Vol 3, No 10 (2018): Mar / Apr; 183-192
2398-4295
10.21834/ajbes.v3i10
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ajbes.e-iph.co.uk/index.php/ajbes/article/view/93/pdf
 
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