The Space is Not Ours, the Life of Public Open Space in Gated Community in Medan, Indonesia

Nasution, Achmad Delianur; Zahrah, Wahyuni

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.08.217

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“…It makes the community leave walking tradition of the rural population. This reality is similar to the other small towns in Sumatera Utara (Nasution & Zahrah, 2015) and Medan (Nasution & Zahrah, 2014) The facility is one of design aspect that guarantees visitors to do activity much easier and comfortable. The survey indicated that facilities available in all open space were grass field, pedestrian path, and various trees.…”

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Public Open Space as Urban Architecture: Design and Public Life

Nasution

Zahrah

2017

IJPS

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Public open space (POS) does not become an adequate priority in urban planning and design in developing countries, including Indonesia. The cities are almost 'full of buildings' and 'less of POS.' Meanwhile, many studies show that the POS has a significant effect on citizens' quality of life. By this situation, the research means to explore the quality of public open space in relation to its utilization. The study observed POS in several small towns in North Sumatra Province, where new urbanized area had been rising by autonomy regulation. A visual survey was carried out to record, map and identify the quality of the public open spaces. Besides, the visitors were interviewed to get their perception of the quality of POS. The investigation indicates that almost of public life did not always equal with the design of the POS. Almost POS have no pedestrian linkage to make it connect with the other urban space. Thus, the majority of POS was alienated with the other part of cities.There was no integration with public transport, too. The facilities were less of maintenance. However, the community kept coming to the place and doing many activities. The respondents perceived the POS as quite good, but not good enough. Still, they mostly believed that the POS have a real impact on their quality of life.

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Public Open Space as Urban Architecture: Design and Public Life

Nasution

Zahrah

2017

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“…While the relatively weak improvement of social interactions is because of the lack of service facilities. Public space is the carrier of social interaction [45,46], as residents have shown intentions to connect with others in open spaces [47]. From this result, the improvement of service facility could be a way to increase social connections.…”

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The Use of Community Greenways: A Case Study on A Linear Greenway Space in High Dense Residential Areas, Guangzhou

Chi

Lin

2019

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The community greenway is a kind of greenway that goes through high-density residential areas in the city and is closely related to residents’ life. However, few scholars focus on how this type of greenways serves the everyday life of the community as an integrated resource. This aspect is important because the everyday life in the public space involves multiple activities. How to coordinate and satisfy these activities relates to the benefits of community greenways. Therefore, this paper takes a representative community greenway in Haizhu District of Guangzhou as an example, to study whether community greenways match the needs of necessary activities, optional activities and social activities. The usage patterns, the evaluation of the current status, the impact on everyday activities, and the importance of different construction factors were surveyed. The applied methods include site observation, questionnaires and interviews. The results show that more than 90% of users are from communities within 1 mile from the community greenway. More than half of the users (55%) are satisfied with the community greenways. Furthermore, the community greenways benefit the everyday activities of residents, such as transportation, recreation, social interaction and also other minor but important everyday activities. However, from the perspective of residents’ requirements for construction factors, the status of service facilities needs to be improved. The characteristics, overall benefits, and construction implications of community greenways are therefore discussed. Community greenways can be important open space for residents and this paper is significant on community greenways meeting the needs of residents’ everyday activities, thus, to provide a better community living environment and to build a better urban open space system.

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“…In this case, information about users' perceptions and needs would be very useful for the further improvement of public space. Thus, the users' preferences and perceptions may assist in understanding the needs of users (Nasution & Zahrah, 2015) as well as useful for the further improvement of public space.…”

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Urban Public Space Revitalisation Strategies for George Town World Heritage Site

Omar

Ramlee

Yunus

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E-BPJ

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Revitalization of urban public space is a mechanism to redevelop the public space area in Core Zone, George Town World Heritage Site (GTWHS) in accordance with the development growth and population. This paper discussed the factors of revitalization which are related to urban public space. The objectives of this paper are to analyze the characteristics of urban public space which could effectively be adopted for revitalisation purposes; and how to generate the public space more functional with positive influence on modern urban life. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research method was applied. The recommendations can contribute to improve the planning and management of urban public space in GTWHS, Pulau Pinang.

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The Space is Not Ours, the Life of Public Open Space in Gated Community in Medan, Indonesia

Cited by 14 publications

References 3 publications

Public Open Space as Urban Architecture: Design and Public Life

Public Open Space as Urban Architecture: Design and Public Life

The Use of Community Greenways: A Case Study on A Linear Greenway Space in High Dense Residential Areas, Guangzhou

Urban Public Space Revitalisation Strategies for George Town World Heritage Site

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