Author: Julianus Hutabarat

Abstract: Public spaces provide infrastructures for the community to carry out diverse activity types in any activity. Downtown Malang City is a public space that conveys the different intensity of community activities in its place. However, the existing condition shows a discrepancy to the ideal condition of a comfortable public open space. This study applies a qualitative approach with data collection gathered from physical and non-physical conditions from respondent’s intellectual understanding and continued by analysis according to related theories. The results of this study are: first; there are quality differences among sub-regions both in the physical and non-physical qualities, second; the sub-area with linear type has better quality compared to the square-type sub-area, third; from responsiveness aspect, sub-areas with mixed functions have better quality than sub-areas with a single function, and fourth; from the democratic aspect, sub-areas with shady vegetations which provide diverse functions have better quality as open public space.

Keywords: Malang City, quality of utilization, public open space