TITLE:
Waterfront Public Space Planning on Krueng Aceh River in Banda Aceh-Indonesia
AUTHORS:
Rizqa Uswah, Lin Wang
KEYWORDS:
Urban Waterfront Development, Waterfront Planning, Urban Public Space Quality Improvement
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.9 No.2,
June
1,
2021
ABSTRACT: Urban waterfront development had been a global trend
in many cities around the world, not only in big cities but also in medium-sized
cities, and even small towns. They have improved their waterfront area with
good utilization in order to create attractive public spaces. Located on the
most western tip of Sumatera Island in Indonesia, the riverbank area along
Krueng Aceh River in Banda Aceh is undergoing to waterfront oriented and has
enormous potential to be developed as waterfront public space. But in its
implementation, there is still less waterfront utilization so which affects the
lack of urban public space quality improvement along the riverbank. This paper
presents the waterfront planning on Krueng Aceh River in Banda Aceh, Indonesia,
and provides a strategic plan as a new waterfront concept in terms of urban
public space quality improvement that can be applied immediately.