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Streetscape Connectivity
and the Making of
Urban Identity
• Nurhikmah Budi HARTANTI
• Widjaja MARTOKUSUMO
4th Arte-Polis International Conference
CREATIVE CONNECTIVITY AND THE MAKING OF PLACE
Living Smart by Design
Bandung, 5-7 July 2012
Introduction
Street as the element of urban identity
 Each city needs identity to be seen as a distinct entity
 Street is the most influencing element of the urban identity
 Streetscape is a manifestation of city’s identity, a city’s showcase
which create the first impression of a city
“Streets and their sidewalks, the main public places of
a city, are its most vital organs.Think of a city and
what comes to mind? Its streets. If a city’s streets look
interesting, the city looks interesting; if they look dull,
the city looks dull.
Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
Allan Jacobs: Great streets are usually iconic streets
tempatberlibur.wordpress.comTeachmefinance.compps.org
 Urban identity changes due to development & urbanism
 Streets are products, witnesses & victims of the urban growth
 Economic growth vs loss of local characters
Problems of Bogor City
From a botanical & resort city built by Dutch Collonial in 18th
century, named “Buitenzorg” (means “no worry”)
Now : Multi-function, tourism & shopping city, with “new”
urbanized streetscapes character
Problem Statement:
How is the influence of development along the streets in Bogor
on streetscape connectivity and the making of urban identity?
Streetscapes: definition, character & attribute
• Streetscape is the visual representation of three dimensional urban
space that span from the building façade of one side to the other
side of the street. It includes of three layers, : the private frontage,
the public frontage, and the vehicular lanes (Aurbach, 2005)
• The streetscape character generally deals with the appearance
and relationship of the exterior features of a town or element of
the streets that determine its character (Wibisono, 2001).
• Streetscape elements consist of:
a. Static system, the physical attributes of street that comprises the
building envelope, the open space, the road lane, the street
furniture, and the green infrastructure.
b. Dynamic system, the activities in the street spaces, including
the movement of people on vehicles or as pedestrians and their
activities around the building which are connected or oriented to
the street)
Building Private
Frontage
Public
Frontage
Vehicle lane BuildingPrivate
Frontage
Public
Frontage
1
3
2
3
2
Urban Identity
Definition:
• Urban identity = Place identity (identity of place) in the urban
environment
• Attributes which provides place’s individuality or distinction from
other places and serves as the basis for its recognition as a
separable entity (Lynch, 1960)
Attributes
• Urban identity is a complex interaction of 3 components :
1. Physical setting or appearance
2. Function or observable activity
3. Meaning and symbols
• Identity of place is the experience of eye, mind, and intention of
the observer to the physical appearance of the place (Relph, 1976).
• Human being are more likely to recognize distinctiveness or
uniqueness of the environment as the attribute of imageability and
identity.
• Urban identity is seen from the insider (residents – collective identity,
and outsider (visitors – distinctive identity)
Discussion
Historical Perspective On Bogor Street Pattern
Before 1973
Botanical garden & de Groote
postweg as orientation of the city
growth (linear)
After Toll Road (1973)
The main access & city
development shifted to Jl.
Pajajaran - Tajur
The Street Connectivity
Economic
development
creates in-
connectivity of
streetscape
characters :
• Jl. Pajajaran (3
segment),
• Jl. Suryakencana
(2 segment)
Some old street still
have maintained
streetscape
connectivity :
Jl.Jalak Harupat,
Jl.Juanda, Jl.
Jl. Juanda Jl. Sudirman Jl. A. Yani
Jl. PajajaranJl. Tajur Jl. KS Tubun
Jl. Suryakencana Jl. Siliwangi
The Making Of Bogor Urban Identity
The most imageable street:
Residents:
1. Jl. Pajajaran
2. Jl. Suryakencana
3. Jl Juanda
Visitors:
1. Jl. Pajajaran
2. Jl. Juanda
3. Jl. Suryakencana
The most identifiable elements:
1. Physical elements: Big trees &
Colonial buildings
2. Activities : FOs, Speciality
Restaurants, culinary activities
Imageable street & connectivity:
• Resident : Strong visual &
physical character
• Visitor : Traffic & circulation
connectivity
Residents
Visitors
CONCLUSION
• Streetscape character will define the urban identity, where a
distinct character or perceivable differences of the street
environment visual arrangement creates a strong imageability
of the streets.
• Streetscape development driven by new economic activities
creates new characters that resulting in lack of visual
connectivity of the streetscape and will affect the urban
identity.
• The most important physical attribute of Bogor streetscapes are
the big trees and the old colonial building, especially the Bogor
Palace
• The combinations of distinct natural attribute, historical
significance, and tourism have strong contribution to the street
imageability to define Bogor urban identity
• Streetscape connectivity formed by physical attributes of the
streetscape, functional connectivity created by on going public
activities, and traffic connectivity determined by accessibility
and legibility, is likely to have a significant contribution in
creating urban identity.

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Streetscape connectivity artepolis presentation revisi

  • 1. Streetscape Connectivity and the Making of Urban Identity • Nurhikmah Budi HARTANTI • Widjaja MARTOKUSUMO 4th Arte-Polis International Conference CREATIVE CONNECTIVITY AND THE MAKING OF PLACE Living Smart by Design Bandung, 5-7 July 2012
  • 2. Introduction Street as the element of urban identity  Each city needs identity to be seen as a distinct entity  Street is the most influencing element of the urban identity  Streetscape is a manifestation of city’s identity, a city’s showcase which create the first impression of a city “Streets and their sidewalks, the main public places of a city, are its most vital organs.Think of a city and what comes to mind? Its streets. If a city’s streets look interesting, the city looks interesting; if they look dull, the city looks dull. Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) Allan Jacobs: Great streets are usually iconic streets tempatberlibur.wordpress.comTeachmefinance.compps.org
  • 3.  Urban identity changes due to development & urbanism  Streets are products, witnesses & victims of the urban growth  Economic growth vs loss of local characters Problems of Bogor City From a botanical & resort city built by Dutch Collonial in 18th century, named “Buitenzorg” (means “no worry”) Now : Multi-function, tourism & shopping city, with “new” urbanized streetscapes character Problem Statement: How is the influence of development along the streets in Bogor on streetscape connectivity and the making of urban identity?
  • 4. Streetscapes: definition, character & attribute • Streetscape is the visual representation of three dimensional urban space that span from the building façade of one side to the other side of the street. It includes of three layers, : the private frontage, the public frontage, and the vehicular lanes (Aurbach, 2005) • The streetscape character generally deals with the appearance and relationship of the exterior features of a town or element of the streets that determine its character (Wibisono, 2001). • Streetscape elements consist of: a. Static system, the physical attributes of street that comprises the building envelope, the open space, the road lane, the street furniture, and the green infrastructure. b. Dynamic system, the activities in the street spaces, including the movement of people on vehicles or as pedestrians and their activities around the building which are connected or oriented to the street) Building Private Frontage Public Frontage Vehicle lane BuildingPrivate Frontage Public Frontage 1 3 2 3 2
  • 5. Urban Identity Definition: • Urban identity = Place identity (identity of place) in the urban environment • Attributes which provides place’s individuality or distinction from other places and serves as the basis for its recognition as a separable entity (Lynch, 1960) Attributes • Urban identity is a complex interaction of 3 components : 1. Physical setting or appearance 2. Function or observable activity 3. Meaning and symbols • Identity of place is the experience of eye, mind, and intention of the observer to the physical appearance of the place (Relph, 1976). • Human being are more likely to recognize distinctiveness or uniqueness of the environment as the attribute of imageability and identity. • Urban identity is seen from the insider (residents – collective identity, and outsider (visitors – distinctive identity)
  • 6. Discussion Historical Perspective On Bogor Street Pattern Before 1973 Botanical garden & de Groote postweg as orientation of the city growth (linear) After Toll Road (1973) The main access & city development shifted to Jl. Pajajaran - Tajur
  • 7. The Street Connectivity Economic development creates in- connectivity of streetscape characters : • Jl. Pajajaran (3 segment), • Jl. Suryakencana (2 segment) Some old street still have maintained streetscape connectivity : Jl.Jalak Harupat, Jl.Juanda, Jl.
  • 8. Jl. Juanda Jl. Sudirman Jl. A. Yani Jl. PajajaranJl. Tajur Jl. KS Tubun Jl. Suryakencana Jl. Siliwangi
  • 9. The Making Of Bogor Urban Identity The most imageable street: Residents: 1. Jl. Pajajaran 2. Jl. Suryakencana 3. Jl Juanda Visitors: 1. Jl. Pajajaran 2. Jl. Juanda 3. Jl. Suryakencana The most identifiable elements: 1. Physical elements: Big trees & Colonial buildings 2. Activities : FOs, Speciality Restaurants, culinary activities Imageable street & connectivity: • Resident : Strong visual & physical character • Visitor : Traffic & circulation connectivity Residents Visitors
  • 10. CONCLUSION • Streetscape character will define the urban identity, where a distinct character or perceivable differences of the street environment visual arrangement creates a strong imageability of the streets. • Streetscape development driven by new economic activities creates new characters that resulting in lack of visual connectivity of the streetscape and will affect the urban identity. • The most important physical attribute of Bogor streetscapes are the big trees and the old colonial building, especially the Bogor Palace • The combinations of distinct natural attribute, historical significance, and tourism have strong contribution to the street imageability to define Bogor urban identity • Streetscape connectivity formed by physical attributes of the streetscape, functional connectivity created by on going public activities, and traffic connectivity determined by accessibility and legibility, is likely to have a significant contribution in creating urban identity.

Notas del editor

  1. Narasi: Each city needs identity in order to be seen as a distinct, separate entity from other city and to be called as a ‘place’. Identity also an important attribute of a good environment and a valuable component for sustainability.Street as the element of the city is the most influencing elements of the urban identity. A city’s streetscape, is a reflection or manifestation of the city’s identity.. Why? Because we experiencing a city while we move through its streets… We see, feel, and absorb the information presented along the street as we pass through it, and we create a perception about the city. Street is a city's showcase where visitors put on first sight impression and decide whether he or she will like or dislike a city or even fall in love with it.Just as Jane Jacobs mentioned in her book “…..quote”…Another Jacobs said about “great streets”, some street in a city which has unique quality so it become an icon of the city
  2. Urban identity can changes as the consequences of technology and ongoing urbanism. Many of those changes are bring positive economic growth for the citizen but also have consequences on the alteration or vanishing of the local character and identity, and produce a standard, uniform, urban character.
  3. Here’s the theoritical definitions of streetscape and it characterStreetscape is define as the visual representation of three dimensional urban space, from the building façade of one side to the other side of the street, which is seen & perceived by street user. It is consist of three layers:1. the private frontage (the privately owned land between the building facade and the plot boundary that may include the arcades, porches, stoops, fences, and yards)2. the public frontage (the publicly owned space between the private plot boundaries and the edge of the vehicular lanes that may include sidewalks or pathways, street planters, trees and other vegetated landscaping, and other street furniture)3. the vehicular lanes (as mentioned by Aurbach)It is composed of elements that categorized as static system and dynamic system. The static system comprises the permanent and semi-permanent physical elements of street, including the buildings envelope, the open space, the road, the street furniture, and the green infrastructure. Whereas the dynamic system is the activities that occupy the street spaces, including the movement of people on vehicles (Mechanical system) or as pedestrians and their activities around the building which are connected or oriented to the street (Human system).
  4. And some theoritical notions about urban identity:In this paper, urban identity is defined as the same notions with place identity (or more preisely is identity of a place) in the urban environment, As Kevin lynch defines defines the identity of a place as attributes which provides place’s individuality or distinction from other places and serves as the basis for its recognition as a separable entity .Place identity depends on people’s perception of the environment which composed from the observable information, as Relph said that it is the experience of eye, mind, and intention of the observer on the physical appearance of the place. But human being are more likely to recognize distinctiveness or uniqueness of the environment, so unique attributes and distinct environments are tend to be more imageableUrban identity isa complex interaction of 3 components : 1. Physical setting or appearance, that is the real physical structure of a place including buildings, landscape, climate, and aesthetical quality 2. Function or observable activity,that concern with how people and place communicate 3. Meaning/symbols, which are the result of human experience & intention on a place as reaction to the physical setting and function of placeWhere the distinctiveness or uniqueness of those 3 components will create a ‘sense of place’5. People perceivethe sense of place of an urban environment are based on their cultural backgrounds (Relph, 2007) and their familiarity with the place (Garnham, 1985), so the urban identity has to be seen from the insider (residents – collective identity, and outsider (visitors – distinctive identity)