Public spaces provide infrastructures for the community to carry out diverse activity types in any
activities. Downtown of Malang City is a public space that conveys the different intensity of community
activities in its place. However, the existing condition shows discrepancy to the ideal condition of a
comfortable public open space. This study applies a qualitative approach with data collection gathered
from physical and non-physical conditions from respondent’s intellectual understanding and continued
by analysis according to related theories. The result of this study are: first; there are quality differences
among sub-regions both in the physical and non-physical qualities, second; the sub-area with linear type
has better quality compared to the square-type sub-area, third; from responsiveness aspect, sub-areas
with mixed functions have better quality than sub-areas with a single function, and fourth; from the
democratic aspect, sub-areas with shady vegetations which provide diverse functions have better quality
as open public space
