Proposing urban park coverage area using spatial configuration approach towards the more sustainable movement in Malang City

Abstract

Urban parks contribute to the sustainability particularly due to its social, functions. Regarding this, the issue of sustainability concerns not only the provision of urban parks but also the accessibility or movement to the parks. The main focus of this research was the investigation of the two issues using the notions of service coverage and spatial configuration. This study used 20 urban parks in Malang City as unit analyses. The overall analyses were in four stages: spatial configuration, the analysis of people's preference and travel distance, correlation analysis, and lastly, proposing the urban parks coverage area. The spatial configuration analysis found that the urban parks distributed across the city with particular integration values. On the other hand, the respondents visited parks located in different districts across the city by 80.49%. As the result, there was a moderate correlation between the integration values and the number of respondents' visit by 0.58 and a very high correlation between the integration values and the average travel distance by -0.847. Finally, the study proposed ten urban parks with the city coverage based on the correlation and the higher Z-scores.