Typological Study of Public Plaza for Improving the Sense of Place in Glodok

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10.2991/assehr.k.201009.025How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sense of place, attachment, open public space, plaza, plaza typology

Abstract

Public place is a space which has taken a major role in human’s daily activity. As a result of social interaction in a setting, people can feel a flicker of emotion for the place which is known as the sense of place. One of the public places taking in the urban scope is plaza. Plaza is a center of social interaction between individuals or groups in the open space. The results of this study produce eight criteria of a plaza with strong a sense of place to make a city more liveable, namely, street, visual image, identity, activity, scale, accessibility, comfort, and sociability. A case study of Glodok in West Jakarta will be analyzed based on those criteria to help Glodok’s main concern. Glodok is one of Jakarta’s Chinatown trading centers which has a rich history and the cultural value up until now. It used to have a plaza as a place to interact. However, Glodok’s population growth is rapidly increased, turning all the open plazas into buildings of shophouses. Although Glodok’s history and culture are very well known, Glodok is now very crowded and lacking in some qualities. Therefore, there is a concern that the area’s unique culture will slowly disappear; making Glodok lose its sense of place as a Chinatown area.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sharene Stefania
AU  - Felia Srinaga
AU  - Jacky Thiodore
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/10
TI  - Typological Study of Public Plaza for Improving the Sense of Place in Glodok
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Dwelling Form (IDWELL 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 239
EP  - 251
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201009.025
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201009.025
ID  - Stefania2020
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