Smart City and Shifting Meaning of Public Space

Abstract

A smart city is an IT-based city concept that carries the mission of good government and expected to bring city efficiency and create more orderly city due to reduced congestion, rapid information processing, and direct problem handling. But sometimes cities those interact quickly in cyberspace may not always be right in the real world. Some scholars worried about improving using of information technology in public space. It can change a social life, then turn the social sustainability here. Whereas, the principle of public space is an eye to eye and the presence of social communication. When community interaction is lost in public space, and people only focus on information technology held, then there is a spatial shifting meaning of public space. In order to know about the spatial shifting meaning in Indonesian public space, this research will do several steps as below: 1) Tracing the role of technology information in Indonesian public space; 2) Identifying the existence of social interaction here; 3) Analysing the spatial meaning in public space has IT, and then 4) Figure out the spatial and its shifting meaning. This research attempts to conduct qualitative methods, to capture the phenomena in a distinct location. This research needs to understand the existing conditions in facing IT forces into real practice of Indonesian public space. The expected result is a particular spatial meaning in public space. Finally, based on the outcome, we could know about the bringing precise concept together between the government and the communities facing the IT forces.