Penataan Kawasan Alun-alun Utara sebagai Ruang Publik di Surakarta

The public space is the area or place where a community or community can gather to achieve the same goal, sharing issues both personal and group issues. Public Space began to be developed into a pattern of city arrangement that has the potential of the region and eliminate the impression of slums in a crowded area of trading activities. Public spaces can be part of a city that has the potential to become a source of income for local people and places that can be used as a major tourist destination in the city. Arrangement of kawasaan North Square which is used as public space can increase tourism potential in the region. But unfortunately the conditions that occur in the area around Surakarta Square today, there are activities and functions of space that grows uncontrollable, including there is a motorcycle park and car along the shoulder of the road around which makes the area becomes slum and unbridled peddlers five (street vendors) who sell around the area of the citywalk North Square. Less maintenance of the area of access roads, buildings around and the absence of adequate parking space for visitors because no one to finance for the repair and maintenance of buildings. For that design entitled Setup of North Square Area As a Public Space in Surakarta is an effort with the process of arranging and organizing an area in North Square Surakarta City so as to produce the design of the area that makes the North Square as a public space in Surakarta and can attract tourists from within and outside the city in order to be a better source of livelihood for the citizens around. Keywords: Area, Setup, Public space