The ideal city planning, in fact is the combination between livable and sustainable city, where the city is able to maintain the quality of life in the present as well as the future, furthermore it generates a comfortable atmosphere for a place to live as seen from many aspects.  Yogyakarta is one of the livable cities in Indonesia with the highest index score, 68.14% for social life and 70.89% for the preservation of cultural heritage building. Considering the mission of Yogyakarta which is to enhance cultural quality and strengthen morality, behavior and cultural value of the community, it is considerable to conduct a research regarding to livable city index in Yogyakarta based on the criteria of cultural heritage.   Furthermore, this research used scoring dichotomy data as a methodology with variables: the changes in building's form and function, the ownership status and the usage of cultural heritage building, as well as the amount of cultural heritage buildings that have been demolished and/or in the process of demolition. The results show the highest livable index for preservation of cultural heritage building is in cultural preservation area Kotagede (41.77%), followed by Kraton (20.66%), Malioboro (14.06%), Pakualaman (13.21%) and the least is Kotabaru (10.03%). Kotagede has the highest livable index due to the amount of cultural heritage building compared to other preservation areas. From the total percentage, 42.9% of the buildings are in the original form, 30% have its function changed, 70% are in personal ownership, 21.6% are in group/association, and 45.5% are not demolished. The conclusion of this study is that the existence of cultural heritage building in the city will increase the value of environmental identity which is resembles the character of the area and the community within

Public transportation service improvement in urban area, such as Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), becomes the main issue among transport planners nowadays. BRT has been a popular transit system which provide an easy dan fast service for satisfying the transport needs, particularly in developing countries. This transport mode offers high quality mass transit system yet still in affordable cost, which is necessary for developing countries. Jakarta becomes the first Southeast Asia country who applied the BRT system. This study aims to gain insights towards the role of policies in facilitating the improvement of TransJakarta performance and reach 1 million passengers in early 2020. Understanding the policy aspect, both central and regional policies which can improve the public transport performance, will possibly provide a broader perspective among policymakers who developing and implementing the BRT systems, particularly in developing countries. For this purpose, conceptual framework was employed to explain how policy implementation could improve the BRT performance, which collected through secondary data, mostly various planning documents and TransJakarta operational reports. By using the qualitative approach, results show that various policies could facilitate the improvement of TransJakarta performances. The improvements occurred in line with the institutional reforms and the development of BRT system, such as routes, capacities, and integration with other mass transit systems.

Kota Yogyakarta sebagai lingkungan kehidupan manusia dengan kompleksitas yang terjadi karena perkembangannya yang dipengaruhi oleh aktivitas perkotaan seperti permasalahan yang dilematis dengan semakin banyaknya keberadaan hotel dan mall yang berada di seluruh Kota Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan faktor-faktor yang paling dominan mempengaruhi kenyamanan Kota Yogyakarta. Metode deskriptif dengan pendekatan kuantitatif digunakan untuk mencapai tujuan penelitian dengan menilai kriteria-kriteria kenyamanan dengan indikator-indikator dari studi literatur sehingga dapat diperoleh variabel yang digunakan dalam penelitian. Faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kenyamanan Kota Yogyakarta antara lain keamanan, kebersihan, fasilitas Penunjang, dan ruang terbuka hijau dengan rata-rata nilai rating lebih dari atau sama dengan tiga koma lima dengan kategori seluruh faktor tersebut adalah nyaman.

Cultural heritage has values on the past cultural heritage that must be preserved and maintained in order to support urban development in the future. The city of Yogyakarta has been appointed as one of the "Liveable Cities" in Indonesia (IAP, 2014) in terms of preservation of cultural heritage. Based on the Government Regulation of Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta No. 40/2014 in terms of “Determaning Cultural Heritage Areas”, stated that Yogyakarta has 5 (five) Cultural Heritage Areas (KCB) which are: Kraton, Kotabaru, Pakualaman, Malioboro and Kotagede. The purpose of this study is to identify the government's efforts to preserve the Yogyakarta cultural heritage building in terms of maintaning the Liveable City Index of Yogyakarta. Next, collecting data method is using observation, interviews and literature studies. The research method is a qualitative descriptive approach, by using preservation variables considering with liveable city criteria, such as: protection, development and utilitation of cultural heritage buildings. Furthermore, the results is the Yogyakarta`s government has prepared conservation guidelines and management of cultural heritage buildings for each cultural heritage area, but those guidelines and management are not integrated with the governor's regulation. The conclusion obtained is the lack of integration from several policies / regulations set by the government in the preserving of cultural heritage buildings