Waterfront Public Space Planning on Krueng Aceh River in Banda Aceh-Indonesia

Abstract

Urban waterfront development had been a global trend in many cities around the world, not only in big cities but also in medium-sized cities, and even small towns. They have improved their waterfront area with good utilization in order to create attractive public spaces. Located on the most western tip of Sumatera Island in Indonesia, the riverbank area along Krueng Aceh River in Banda Aceh is undergoing to waterfront oriented and has enormous potential to be developed as waterfront public space. But in its implementation, there is still less waterfront utilization so which affects the lack of urban public space quality improvement along the riverbank. This paper presents the waterfront planning on Krueng Aceh River in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and provides a strategic plan as a new waterfront concept in terms of urban public space quality improvement that can be applied immediately.