PEMANFAATAN TAMAN KOTA SEBAGAI RUANG PUBLIK DI KECAMATAN MENTENG JAKARTA PUSAT

Jakarta extremely needs city park and city forest that function as public spaces and places for social interactions occurred and as inexpensive tourism areas for its citizens. The Menteng area was designed as the first park settlement area in Indonesia that has numerous public spaces. Several small parks scattered around this area and supported by trees along roadsides. This research concern is on the utilization of such parks as public space it observes the users of public parks. The research was done in three parks, namely Menteng park, Situ Lembang park, and Suropati park. This reserach used deductive-qualitative approach to find out the park�s character and utilization pattern. Data collection method used were interviews, questionnaires, and field observations. The research found different the characteristic of three parks. Seen from user�s status and age, Menteng park is more dominated by teenagers and children, while of Suropati park are adults and elder people. Meanwhile, Situ Lembang park is dominated by adults and teenagers. Service coverage in Menteng park and Suropati park are wider compared to Situ lembang park. Public space�s utilization pattern in Menteng park is based on its activities taking place in groups gathered. The park has several spatial zone characters that result in one activity has different nature to one another. Place setting in Menteng park is more interactive and dynamic that makes this park is dominated by students and children. Determinant factors of visitors and public park utilization are closeness related to transportation access, habit, recreational motivation, and range of facilities such as children playground and sport facilities. This research recomended that, to design a public space, in addition to pay attention to park elements and range of facilities, one should also pay attention to several factors such as service coverage, number of inhabitant served, the landmass in a certain area, and their spread in a certain area