Open AccessSpatial behavior pattern of visitors in City Park Case study: Flora and Bungkul Park, Indonesia
Author(s) -
Vippy Dharmawan,
Nanik Rachmaniyah
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/821/1/012006
Subject(s) - visitor pattern , national park , geography , urban park , field research , environmental resource management , environmental planning , archaeology , sociology , environmental science , social science , computer science , programming language
Abstract . Knowledge of park visitor behavior needs to be owned by architects or public facilities designers. This is so that they can predict how visitors will behave in the park they designed. On the other hand, research on the behavior of park visitors is still rare in Indonesia. This research was located in Taman Bungkul and Taman Flora Surabaya-Indonesia and aimed to observe behavior patterns of park visitors. The research uses a qualitative descriptive approach, with behavior mapping techniques whose data are mostly obtained from direct observation in the field. Behavior mapping identified visitor’s position, elements and facilities of the park, and the time they spend in the park. The results of the observations revealed that park facilities acted as a prominent stimulus to visitors’ behavior pattern, and there was interelation between city park facilities and spatial behavior pattern. In addition, it was also found that the strength of stimulus changed time to time depended on density in the park.