摘要：The existence of university can be a new growth center area that causes affect to increased carrying capacity areas such as residential area and trigger development of commercial and service areas to support educational activities. Development uncontrolled area will give problems to the surrounding area. In the Kaliurang km.5 street corridor, precisely in Caturtunggal Village, Yogyakarta experienced regional development that is because there are two campuses such as Gadjah Mada University and Yogyakarta State University which have high student attractiveness. This causes a problem impact to traffic in main street, land use change in green open space, and high building density. The concept of a compact city is a concept sustainable development one of the carious sustainable development approaches to solve this problem by considering environmental, economic, and environment aspects. This study aims to examine the characteristics of compact cities in the region Kaliurang km.5 street, as well as providing direction for regional development in realizing it sustainable areas with qualitative descriptive analysis technique.
