| Summary: | IAP (2009) rated Yogyakarta as the most pleasant city in Indonesia. Since that, tourism and education sector have been thriving much. The key of the pleasantness are historical and culture values which have embedded. There is no astonishment, much immigrants settle as residents or visit as tourists. Statistic Bureau (2012) registered more than three million imigrants visited recreation destinations in Yogyakarta. High demand of pleasantness for imigrants leads into amenities expansion with hedonism orientation. Whereas, as the most pleasant city, Yogyakarta stores really amazing cultural and historical assets, so we can define it as creative city.
However, there is big underlining inside the change of Yogyakarta into entertainment machine caused by pleasantness image. As key actor who plays big role for growth of city, pleasantness of creative class using urban amenities is not conceived yet. Creative class creates much activites which can turn space more lively. Despite big role of creative class, they still need space for recreational activities like others. Nevertheless, they do have different background, like education, jobs, stages of age and many more. Each category has different perception of pleasantness. Stages of ages and kind of jobs show strong differences for every classification of pleasantness using amenities.
With mixed method, this research delivers new result which combines between urban amenities concept and pleasantness needs of creative class. Distribution pattern using amenities in Yogyakarta is concentrated by two big poles. First pole places in downtown with tourism and services as main sectors. Second pole places in north with education as main sector. Crosstab analysis shows different characteristics influence on pleasantness perception of creative class. Grounded on typology of pleasantness perception, there are five aspects which form pleasantness of creative class. Teritory, openess, tolerance, orientation and amenities identity are those five aspects.
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