The Influence of Building Function Characteristics on City Walk Utilization on Slamet Riyadi Street, Surakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

Since 2007, the city of Surakarta has built an area for pedestrians or pedestrian paths which is often referred to as a city walk. City walk is a public open space based on the idea of raising the existing potential of Surakarta and growing with the slogan "Solo Past As Solo Future". The current state of the city walk is widely used for street vendors (PKL) activities, vehicle parking activities, pedicab driver activities, bicycle / motorbike circulation. So this research is important to know the use of city walk space and what factors influence the low utilization of city walk space by pedestrians. The research methodology used in this study is a qualitative method, because the variables that affect this study are qualitative variables. The analytical method to describe the phenomena that occur in the research area is carried out with grounded theory. With the coding technique procedures / stages, namely open coding, axial coding and selective coding to analyze various data according to the phenomena that occur in a city walk. The results showed that the use of the city walk was influenced by the function of the building. Buildings with commercial functions have a higher activity level than non-commercial buildings. The higher the activity level in the building and the shade of the city walk space, the higher the level of space utilization activity.