6TH International Congress on Technology - Engineering - Kuala Lumpur3 - Malaysia (2018-07-19)

Urban Fabric, Its Form Quality And An Enhancement Of Social Capital: A Comparison Of Three Cities In Indonesia

The city is a living entity, especially about any urban form, however, the quality of the city would not merely be based on physical qualities. Physical space should be providing social space and cultural essence to fortify on the other hand which then strengthening of social capital. The structure of the physical environment within the city is formed by structural elements (artificial) which cover all elements such as buildings, and various other technical infrastructures connected differently from each other. This study was carried in Surabaya and Bandung and Surakarta, cities in Indonesia. This study aims to give a description of urban form quality of each city; the perception of citizens of their own city, then gives the reciprocal of capital, social value, the sense toward urban form and space, which show in their daily activity. The results show that Bandung and Surakarta have urban form quality in the “low” level, meanwhile, Surabaya has the “high” level. Surabaya with “high” level physical quality has a correlation with “high” level of their citizen perception. Despite the “low level” of physical quality in Bandung and Surakarta, their citizen is having “high” level of perception of their image of the city Keywords: social capital; social space; urban form quality
Moch. Syaom Barliana, Diah Cahyani Permana Sari, Dodit Ardian Pancapana, Beta Paramita