Higher education campuses as modern elements has had an important role in the development of
the region in some places in Yogyakarta. One area that is developing dynamically due to the existence
of the higher education campus is Tambakbayan-Babarsari region. Within fifteen year-TambakbayanBabarsari
region
developed
into a mixed
use
region
that
is triggered
by
educational
activities
in
university
campuses.
The
existence
of Atma
Jaya Yogyakarta
University
and
several
other universities

have
become
a generator
the dynamics
of
local
life
of the region.
Tambakbayan-Babarsari
region

since
2000
has
gradually
evolved
into a commercial
mixed-use
area, in which
the synergistic
activities

of
the
university
campuses
with economic
supporting
activites
(Purbadi
&
Purwaningsih,
2014).

Exploratory
research
based
on fenomomenology
done
to understanding
the
phenomenon
of the
dynamics
of the region
as
a result
of the region's
economic
development
generated
by
university

campuses
in the
region
Tambakbayan-Babarsari.
The
study's
findings
indicate
that
the role
of
external

actors
(exogenous
elements)
of
the region dominate
the
role of
the internal
actors
(endogenous

element),
resulting
in changes
in
the dynamics
of
local
life and
the
region
in the
frame
of modernity
on

the
Tambakbayan-Babarsari
region.