Sustainability Assessment on Community Park Revitalization

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Nowadays the green open spaces are becoming more difficult to find, especially in urban areas. Malls and other physical buildings tend to dominate public options for recreation. This paper describes the community engagement program in developing community park in Bogor Regency that has been done within July-December 2016, which was initiated by American Red Cross in Indonesia. Implemented together with Indonesian Red Cross and Universitas Indonesia, the program highlighted the necessity of community park revitalization as nature-based infrastructure that also functioned as refugee point when disaster occurs. The “Charrette” was used as the method to collect information from the community and to make sure bottom-up approach was applied. This way, the community park can be revitalized based on the needs of the community. This paper accesses the process of green open spaces revitalization in the 4 selected locations in Bogor Regency. It observes the sustainability potentials based on the preconditions in each locations. In general, the processes show that community engagement in terms of enthusiasm, willingness to contribute voluntary and financial capital highly influence the sustainability of the green open space. Based on the assessment, one of the four green open spaces hold the highest sustainability potential.