RUANG BERJALAN: SEJARAH PERENCANAAN PEDESTRIAN DI JAKARTA

When people habitat in a city, they must get easy access to move in all directions. Cities are always developing and so are the network systems that exist within them, but the human need to move by foot will always be there. Pedestrian paths become a network system for this movement and their existence also develops following the needs and growth of the city. This paper examines how the development of pedestrian path planning in Jakarta from time to time through historical approach. What paradigms underlie the planning of pedestrian paths in each period and the priorities taken by the decision makers at each periods. Such developments have brought Jakarta closer to a pedestrian-friendly city and have made Jakarta's pedestrian pathways a space for the aspirations of its people. Interpretation method used in this research by using online news data as the main source. It is important to know the process that occurs in Jakarta, considering its position as the capital city of the country and every planning and policy that occurs will always be a barometer of planning and policy for other cities in Indonesia.