The Role of Public Spaces for Flood Management on the Mahakam Riverbank

Abstract

Public spaces in urban areas are public spaces that are easy to adapt to relatively stable spatial planning patterns, but when facing climate change that has the potential to become extreme, these public spaces sometimes do not have the same adaptive capacity. Public space is an area that is vulnerable to climate, therefore public space requires relevant characteristics as an adaptation effort to the surrounding environment, this makes adaptation effective if it benefits the surrounding environment. The role of the public sphere and its benefits is as a gathering place for civilians, for social and economic exchange. This paper presents a challenge to analyze the role and function of the effectiveness of public spaces on the banks of the Mahakam river and how to manage floods there. This research was conducted using literature study and environmental observation methods such as collecting various data including documentation and learning from various books to papers that are used as a framework for overcoming various types of problems, issues, and crises in the public sphere in that place. There are two important parts in this study. The first part contains the problem of flooding that has hit the banks of the Mahakam river in Samarinda City so that it has an impact on existing public spaces, while the second part tries to analyze existing data to find solutions in analyzing the role of public space in that place. It is hoped that through this paper we can understand how the role of the public space for flood prevention in rivers on the banks of rivers so that it can benefit the community in the present and in the future.