Pedestrian Behaviour in Urban Space at Pontianak City Case Study in Diponegoro Street

Abstract

A successful urban space is used space, and most urban space use is movement. The main purpose this study is to study pedestrian movement in small urban spaces, in order to provoke a sense of people-place awareness for architects and urban designers during the designing. The understanding of pedestrian and environment relationships will lead the designers to create a better urban place where social life --contacting between people-- can be stimulated. Meanwhile the developing new city has its own problems. People are living without street life and amenities. A claim for an absence of social life in urban space, in fact, stems from a lack of understanding of the dialectical nature of social and space relationship. Although the analysis of people's behavior in relation to their built environments is a major concern in the field of urban design, environment-behavior research is not considered sufficiently during most architects' design process. This research consists of two parts: a literature review of related work and a proposed method for studying pedestrian behavior and environment relationships. Urbanists and architects had written about the need for more understanding about people and place relationships, focussing on the study of pedestrian movement behaviors in relation to spatial organization of urban space. The core issues of investigation is pedestrian movement, there are environmental influence on pedestrian interaction and social activity, the effects of spatial characteristic of a built environment on pedestrian movement, and methods of observation and empirical works in a field of physical environment and pedestrian behavior.