Improving Urban Environmental Quality and Human WellBeing towards Healthy Urbanism: Case Study in Soetomo General Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia

摘要

Nowadays, there is overwhelming evidence that regular physical activity has important and wide-ranging health benefits. The health risk and mortality factors were indirectly influenced by physical inactivity, the sedentary lifestyles developed by the caroriented urban approach. That evidence supports the conclusion that physical inactivity becomes one of the most important public health problems of the 21st century, and may even be the most important. In order to encourage healthy urbanism, focusing on cultural and environmental aspects become necessary to Indonesian people. Soetomo General Hospital is a provincial health centre to provide a sense of security, comfort and convenience which are equal for all kinds of people, especially to walk. Therefore, environmental quality is a very important component to be considered. This paper utilizes character appraisal to find Soetomo General Hospital area's physical condition. The result concludes design criteria for the built environment of the area. These design criteria are used as the main concept for elaborating the concept design of the place to improve its quality of environment towards healthy urbanism.