By, Sumarwanto

SIDEWALK SPACES IN THE CITY: MEANING, USES AND POLITICS

International Seminar on Livable Space. Creating Space for Better Live. 1616-17th February 2012.

SIDEWALK
From Wikipedia

A sidewalk, or pavement, footpath, footway, and sometimes platform, is a path along the side of a road. A sidewalk may accommodate moderate changes in grade (height) and is normally separated from the vehicular section by a curb. There may also be a road verge (a strip of vegetation, grass or bushes or trees or a combination of these) either between sidewalk and the roadway or between the sidewalk and the boundary. In some places, the same term may also be used for a paved path, trail or footpath that is not next to a road, for example, a path through a park.

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of Architecture UNTAG Semarang.

Sidewalk as public space

Sidewalks for granted. An undervalued viewpoint of the city appearance

Sidewalks were effective sites of socialization and admiration, and this bop interaction kept neighborhoods safe and controlled

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of Architecture UNTAG Semarang.

SIDEWALKS : TERMS, FUNCTION, SPACE

City
footway cafes, broadside displays, vendors and performers, rebuilt historic public markets, town centers, riverfronts.

High density living

Downtown public space

Urban downtown & main streets

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of Architecture UNTAG Semarang.

DESIGN APROACH OF SIDEWALK

Population:
Proportion Disability person Decreasing mortality children traveler

Design of sidewalks
activity

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of Architecture UNTAG Semarang.

DESIGN SOLUTION OF SIDEWALK

standard pedestrian universal design Designing solutions meeting the needs of all potential users physical

cognitive take into consideration Emotional

social changes
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of Architecture UNTAG Semarang.

STUDY OF SIDEWALKS SPACES OF MOVEMENT

City

A story that unfolds continuously as people move through space

Sidewalks are such spaces of movement.

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of Architecture UNTAG Semarang.

INTERACTION ON SIDEWALKS
walking and informal strolling ritualized leisure strolling
sidewalk as primary space dictating clothing styles and individual mannerisms

large scale for community, with economic building

rules of public presentation have explicitly enacted class differences

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of Architecture UNTAG Semarang.

THE POWER OF SIDEWALK

Dominant Site

Resistance Site

Sidewalk

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of Architecture UNTAG Semarang.

CONCLUSION
On sidewalks, the unexceptional has behoove equated more the institute, and the chilly accentuation of the contribute to has been a forbiddance functioning rather than an expansive one. As urbanites adopted cars and municipal engineers envisioned public works, unobstructed mobility focused on these marvelous moving machines. In the decades that followed, people continued to make claims for promenading, public speaking, expression of dissent, and street vending as well as a host of other activities on the sidewalks.
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