Identifying City Park Accessibility Using Geographic Information System
Irland Fardani, Sabine Fatimah
Bandung Islamic University
Abstract
Bandung have about 2 million people that stayed in that 8.572 hectare urban area that have population density a 149 people / hectare in year 2017. The city of Bandung only has an area of about 502 hectare of urban parks, which is not enough to serves all the citizen to get access to that park. The study is analysing level of accessibility of the citizen to reach the park services, in term of how far and wide the city park can serve the surrounding community. This Research using one of the Network Analysis in Geographic Information System (GIS) method, which is Service Area, with assumption that one park can be reached by walking by citizen in radius of 1 km around their house. The result show that the existing of the park in Bandung City can only serve about 5.516 Ha of urban area, that means it only serve 2/3 urban area in Bandung City. In the diverse of urban park in Bandung City, its distribution has not been distributed well, in east and south of Bandung City there is a blank spot that the citizen cannot reach the city park. With this research, it can be one of input to the local government when they want to build the new city park they can build in the east and south area of Bandung City
Keywords: City Park, Urban, Geographic Information System
Topic: Environmental Engineering