Sleep Early, Wake Up Early Movement! How to Cope with Health and Traffic Problem in Cities

Abtrak ini diambil dari makalah yang  dipublikasikan pada Seminar Nasional Cities 2012 di Departemen Perencanaan Wilayah dan Kota, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November, Surabaya, Indonesia tanggal 19 September 2012 dan ditulis oleh Aswin Rahadi, Alia Widyarini Hapsariniaty, Siti Larissa Sarasvati, Siti Kania Mevianti, Muhammad Iwan Aryanggi, Tara Putri Paramitha

“Early to bed and early to rise makes and man healthy, wealthy and wise” – Ben Franklin

Our life began when we are waking up. In general, the habits of waking up can be generalized into two group categories; the early riser and the night owl, with both of these groups have their own advantages/disadvantages. This paper is an extension from an idea submitted into Phillips Project + competition which discuss about the phenomenon, and its relationship with our daily activities. What happened in the society nowadays is against the common rules from both aforementioned habits, as we are usually wakes up early and sleep late, due to bad traffic jam or because of workloads of wrong living habits. These habits if not fixed soon, can cause health and mental problem in the future.

This Sleep Early, Wake Up Early! Movement is proposed to adopt the concept of early riser. This concept is selected because most of the students and workers are used to work consistently in the morning, starting from 8-9 in the morning up to 5-6 in the afternoon. This article will try to introduce the concept of early riser, what is the benefit of the concept for people who are living in the city, seen from mental and health perspective. This paper also will try to find way on how to introduce the concept to city dwellers via social media and other modern method of communication in order to produce a healthier and better community and place to live.