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Global urban theory has placed increased emphasis on the ways in which residents from different walks of life have created heterogeneous spaces, livelihoods and political sensibilities. Much of this analysis deals with the importance of discernible forms of belonging, organization, and identity as the tools through which relationships among residents and spaces are managed and secured. For residents of mixed income, mixed use areas of the urban cores of megacities in the so‐called Global South, securing livelihoods have also depended upon sensibilities and practices that open up multiple venues of collaboration among distinct backgrounds, capacities, and interests. They have relied upon intricate local political and social practices that foster more diffuse and uncertain intersections—where time, effort, money, and affiliation are “untied” from their usual social anchors. Taking the phenomena of sporadic explosions of violence in Tanah Tinggi and the everyday piecing together of “nationhood” in Kramat Sentiong—two neighboring districts in central Jakarta—the article explores ways in which it is possible for localities to sustain a plurality of livelihoods and initiatives.

Across many cities of the so-called Global South, the primary responsibility for constructing spaces of inhabitation has fallen largely to residents themselves. Although these cities have been largely remade through the intensive segregations precipitated by property markets, many substantial traces of the continuous incremental renovations and readjustment of everyday life remain vital. It was not just a matter of households building their own homes. Affordability meant density. Densification was not just of bodies of techniques necessary to provide an array of affordances. This meant the intermixing of measures, angles, calculations, impulses, screens, surfaces, soundscapes, exposures, folds, circuitries, and layers, as instruments for associating things, bringing things into association, where things get their 'bearings' by having a 'bearing' on each other. But these associations required their own rhythm and time. Focusing on different heterogeneous districts in inner city Jakarta, the paper explores these mixtures of temporality and how they are materialized in local built and economic environments. The time that worksIn the fields of urban development and change many assumptions are made about the capacities of residents to bring about improvements in the conditions of their lives. This is particularly the case for residents living in rapidly expanding urban mega-regions where complex rearrangements of life outpace the ability of policy-makers and institutions to always manage these transformations. The bulk of these assumptions centres on various organizational imaginaries -that is, the capacities of residents to organize in ways that identify and secure their collective interests and rights. If only residents were better able to pool their time, efforts and assets into more proficient investments and organizational capacities, then, the assumption goes, would they be better able to make the city something that works for them (

The Literacy level of Indonesian is relatively low. It can be inferred from the number of people who access newspapers less than 10 percent of Indonesia’s population. Nonetheless not necessarily the publishing company is in total failure. In the midst of the relatively low of literacy rate, the number of newspapers grew rapidly especially after the New Order. This study aims to find out how the dynamics of the development of the publishing industry in the middle of the relatively low of literacy rate. This study employs qualitative research methods. Primary data is obtained by conducting observations, interviews and focus group discussions (FGD). The result show that despite a wave of a relatively of literacy rates and limited income power, the book Industry still survives and some of them very dynamics. This study also indicates that the popularity of Islamic book is not only depend on the establish publishers with there distribution network, but also the social environment factors of the readers.Tingkat membaca di Indonesia tergolong rendah. Dapat dilihat dari jumlah penduduk  yang mengakses suratkabar kurang dari 10 persen populasi Indonesia. Meskipun demikian, tidak serta merta industri penerbitan gagal total. Di tengah tidak kunjung membaiknya tingkat baca, jumlah surat kabar justru berkembang pesat selepas Orde Baru. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana dinamika perkembangan industry buku di tengah minat baca yang rendah. Metode penelitian kualitatif, data primer diperoleh dengan melakukan observasi, wawamcara dan FGD. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa meski diterpa gelombang tingkat baca yang rendah dan keterbatasan daya beli, industri buku masih bertahan dan sebagian lainnya bahkan berkembang sangat dinamis. Hasil penelitian kami menunjukkan bahwa buku-buku bertema keislaman yang memiliki jangkauan pembaca milenial paling luas adalah buku yang ditulis dalam bahasa yang sederhana, lugas dan sebagian cenderung puitis. Tingkat penetrasi buku populer yang diterbitkan oleh penerbit mapan di pasar pembaca tertentu tidak selalu berbanding lurus dengan kuatnya jaringan distribusi yang dimilikinya menyiratkan adanya faktor non-pasar yang turut menentukan. Faktor lingkungan sosial pembaca juga turut memediasi atau memfasilitasi penetrasi buku.

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