Child-friendly integrated public spaces (RPTRA): Uses and sense of attachment

Friendly City 4 'From Research to Implementation For Better Sustainability'

地球科学;经济学

Prakoso, S.^1 ; Dewi, J.^1

Architecture Department, Faculty of Design, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Jl. M.H. Thamrin Boulevard, Lippo Karawaci, Banten, Tangerang

15811, Indonesia^1

关键词: Elderly citizens;    Future planning;    Jakarta;    Public space;    Urban areas;    Urban green spaces;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/126/1/012199/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/126/1/012199

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The Jakarta City Provincial Government undertook an extensive citywide initiative to build small public urban green spaces, called child-friendly integrated public spaces (RPTRA). Studies on how citizens, including children, use RPTRA was limited, and questions regarding whether children had become attached to the RPTRA as one of their favorite places remain unanswered. This paper presents a preliminary study on ten RPTRA located in Jakarta. We examine how children and citizens use the spaces, based on data from respondents who completed on-site questionnaires during the course of their visit to the RPTRA. We also measure the degree of children's sense of attachment to RPTRA. The results show that children primarily use RPTRA for playing and learning. Women and girls use RPTRA the most, and elderly citizens use it the least. The results of the study also demonstrate that children had developed a sense of attachment to RPTRA and it had become one of their favorite places. This study may have implications on the existence of small public urban green spaces like RPTRA as valuable assets in the everyday lives of children and citizens. It proposes that RPTRA should be taken into account for future planning of densely populated urban areas.