Urban Threshold Indicators as a
tool to manage urbanization
JAKARTA, 7 November 2016
Hendricus Andy Simarmata
Urban studies postgraduate program School of global and strategic studies Universitas Indonesia
Urbanizing Indonesia or Java? Regional disparity
Over weithg
Sumber:
11 US Mega-regions
Infrastructure focused coalition
“
To recognise the present-day growth of our cities, their
spreading and their pressure into new and vaster groupings
or
conurbations
, and to realise these as vividly as may
be
...”
Conurbations:
a group of towns that have spread and joined
together to form an area with a high population,
often with a large city as its centre
Edge of cities
–
Are there any left?
•
Prisons (Jails)
•
Farming land
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Industrial zone
•
Cemeteries
•
Solid waste management sites
•
Coastal or sea place
Edge cities (Garreau, 1991)
1. The area must have more than 4.5 million square meter of office space(about the space of a good-sized downtown) 2. The place must include over540,000 square meter of retail space(the size of a large regional shopping mall)
3. The population must rise every morning and drop every afternoon (i.e., there are more jobs than homes)
Urban growth boundary
• A planned capacity to accommodate a 20-year forecast of housing needs and employment growth, if the area affected by the boundary
i ludes ultiple jurisdi tio s a spe ial ur a pla i g age a e reated the state or
regional to manage the boundary (a guide to zoning and land use decision)