The Johar Market, which is the center of Semarang City’s economic activity, should be able to accommodate all user activities, including the activities of disabled groups. However, the Johar Market Area condition is not safe for people with disabilities, especially access for pedestrians. Aspects of road material quality, safety, comfort, road circulation, legibility, distinctiveness, and familiarity are not achieved in the Johar Market Area. This research method uses descriptive quantitative methods, the Likert scale, multiple regression analysis, behavior mapping, interviews, and field observations. This study indicates that in determining the development of road space, it is necessary to identify the preferences of people with disabilities towards road space facilities, which must adjust to data on age, variety of disabilities, and travel destinations in the Johar Market Area. In addition, the condition of the road space facilities that have a wrong value is also mapped according to the criteria for the streets for disabled aspects. Thus, various recommendations were made for road space facilities based on the preferences of people with disabilities as road users in the Johar Market Area.
Urban spatial planning cannot be separated from the element of public open space. During the COVID-19 pandemic, public space are also used as alternative tourism munity as well as a place to unwind, so that must be balanced with good quality as well. In this study, researchers took the road corridor Letjen Soeprapto which is one of the public spaces in the Kota Lama which has quite a number of building arrangements including high priority buildings, however durig the COVID-19 pandemic this route still uses normal standards before the pandemic and did not have a design that was responsive to the pandemic so that it experionced a drastic decrease in visitors. The purpose of this study is to develop a strategy for structuring the public space of Kota Lama based on the Public Space Index during the COVID-19 pandemic. The quality measurement is based on the Public Space Index (PSI) which is based on the observations of researchers and perceptions of visitors. The analysis used is Behavior Mapping, Simpson's Diversity Index, Public Space Index, and SWOT analysis. The results of the Public Space Index as a whole, the quality of public space in the Old City is quite good with a total value of 108.39 PSI from a maximum value of 150, so that the structuring strategy obtained from the SWOT analysis shows that in general the arrangement that can be done is the addition of responsive facilities during the COVID- 19 pandemic.
Population growth in the city of Semarang increases the need for residential land, shifting individuals from the center to the suburbs. Tembalang is a sub-district with a population growth of 3.69%. The trend in population growth is used to build gated homes, for middle and upper class individuals who need more comfortable, secure, quiet housing. However, the existence of a gated community makes a physical separation between community settlements. Privatization of public spaces in gated housing potentially leads to social inequality and lack of interaction with the surrounding community. The purpose of this study was to examine the social relations between the villagers around housing and residents of the gated community. The study uses questionnaires and open interviews interviews with 93 respondents from Kampong Gendong and a hierarchical analysis to examine social relations. The results show that there are social relations between gated housing residents and villagers based on residence, and they carry out several activities together. Also, housing typology influences the strength of the interaction between villagers and residents of the gated homes. In general, gated housing appear as a form of exclusive property with separate environmental facilities, which might be used by villagers to strengthen social interaction. The relations with the surrounding community play n important role in increasing the sense of security for residents of gated housing, unlike the use of perimeter fence or the guards.
Climate change affects the increase in air temperature, making the dry season hotter and the humidity decrease; the difficulty of obtaining clean water and high rainfall makes the frequency of tidal waves and floods higher. This situation is placed in Tanjung Mas, a coastal village in Semarang City. Tidal flood worsens the environmental quality of community settlements, coupled with poor water quality, high population density, and unhabitable housing, making the risk of transmission of both water-borne and vector-borne diseases surge. The situation above reflects that achieving healthy city efforts is challenging for the Semarang City government and the community because of climate change. Hence, this study reveals the impact of climate change on the settlement quality that influences the healthy city achievement. This study uses qualitative methods that rely on secondary data from the government agencies’ websites and the internet. The analysis results showed that the quality of settlements in Tanjung Mas has decreased along with climate change. The community, especially the elderly and children, are also increasingly susceptible to exposure to diseases, as indicated by significant cases of diarrhea and pneumonia. Therefore, achieving a healthy city from the settlements and healthy infrastructure indicators is still not optimal.
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