EVALUASI NILAI WATERFRONT PADA RUANG TEPI SUNGAl DI TENGAH KOTA KASUS KOTA SEMARANG

Waterfront value evaluation on the riverbank, Semarang City case

Abstrak

In the Central  Java  people's perception,   the river is blackside  and outcast  area. Some  disasters  on the riverbank  have expressed  the velopment  inconsidersation    of the water potention.  research  is to find out the concept of the waterfront application  on the riverbank  development.   Using  correlation between the human behaviour  and the the environment  (Rapoport,  1977),  the research is aimed  to get support  theories and the classifications   aspects of waterfront.  This research  has 5 cases.  Three (3) cases explain about Semarang as the coastal city, and two (2) cases explain  about Semarang as the historical  city that has river  water transportauon.   The research  found  that the waterfront  in Semarang  has 3 clasifications,   First, by the fishermen in the  fishermen  settlement,  the clasification  of waterfront  was not only  the building  on the river but also  as the people  activity   related  to the river. Second,  by the non fisherman  live  in the riverbank  settlement,  the classification   of waterfront  was only related  to the view  of the river not its  activity.   Those people  have used only  the riverbank space.  Third,  by the inhabitans  of the city  in the kampung kola, the classification   was not related to waterfront orientation.  The riveronly  seen as edges the district an administrative   border. Finnaly, the public's   argument  that if the river is cleaner, the application   of the waterfront  concept  can be fuller than before. The research recommend  that it was very important  to threat  the river carefully, since it can  give  benefit for some aspec in the  future.