Open AccessMapping of Child Friendly Parks Availability for Supporting Child Friendly City in Semarang
Author(s) -
Pegi Prihantini,
W. Kurniawati
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/313/1/012035
Subject(s) - environmentally friendly , user friendly , business , family friendly , psychology , geography , engineering , computer science , ecology , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , biology , operating system
Semarang is one of a city that gets an award as a child-friendly city. A child-friendly city is a city that has recognized the existence of children’s rights, which implements it in policy, including in the development of its city. The availability of service facilities that consider children’s needs such as children’s playgrounds can contribute to the realization of a child-friendly city. Semarang has 33 active parks in 2014 and continues to grow by approximately 20 parks now, but not all parks provide children’s ground. The purpose of this study is to know that the availability of child-friendly parks can support Semarang as a Child-Friendly City. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach, using a scoring analysis tool. The results of the analysis show that the availability of child-friendly parks is sufficient to influence the predicate of a child-friendly city because child-friendly parks are a representation of the attention and recognition of children’s rights.