Bandung City Center Compactness Evaluation

Compact city as a model of urban sustainable development leads urban intensification, encourages mixed-use, and push people to walk or use public transportation. Urban design has significant role to create sustainable development through applying compact city arrangement in the inner city. Bandung City Center that should be accessible through walking among some functions; due uncomfortable pedestrian ways condition has result serious traffic jam and crowded situation. In the end, many visitors and residents prefer to use public transport rather than walking although they are in the walking distance.
This oldest CBD is evaluated based on urban design compactness criteria which are 1) mixed-land use orientation, 2) walking area condition within activity centers, 3) accessibility on using public transportation, and 4) accessibility on using private vehicle. Furthermore, the method to evaluate is comparative technique. In addition, this research conducts survey to 30 visitors and 82 resident about their motives and behaviour in Bandung’s down town activities that analyze with descriptive method. The result shows that 1) vertical mix land use is not a domination; 2) lack of transition public area which connect several walkable areas by pedestrian ways; 3) there are mass rapid transport modes that link the hub to the activity centers by walking; and, too many feeder public transportation modes which not serve efficiently, and 4) private vehicles could park in limited shared parking area, however people tend to use feeder public modes instead of to walk afterwards

Dibuat oleh     : IRA IRAWATI, WITANTI NUR UTAMI
Alamat e-mail   : ira_irawati@yahoo.com
Kata kunci      : compact city, urban design, city center

Keterangan      : Karya Ilmiah ini dimuat pada The 12th International Congress of Asian Planning School Association,  Subtheme 7: Urban design and public spaces
 

Bandung City Center Compactness Evaluation