Vol. 11 No. 2 (2000)

Circumstances that accompany urban development could be explained by ecological system. Urban environment as a system could be separated into social and ecological system. Among them took place input and output flows as energy, material, and information creating a certain internal dynamic in each components and determining urban characteristics as whole. An outstanding mechanism in the ecologically urban system was homeostasis. Such mechanism was highly important to sustain the system against any conflicts beyond a demand and supply gap under a finite urban space. Such process was also to…

The study is an assessment on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method as a tool to analyze region in order to assess the district and municipality region efficiency rate. The study will cover DEA basic concept, CCI? model, BCC model and return to scale.

The background of this paper is the worries that city development will have impact on the disappearance of traditional pattern that is the basic pattern of development of most cities in Central Kalimantan. With these worries, the goal of this paper is to define city development concept for ci fies in Central Kalimantan. Three basic concepts of development were defined: 1) Fully traditional concept of development, 2). Transitional concept of development from traditional to modern development, and 3). Mix of traditional and modern development.

Change in urban land use is a phenomenon that often occurs along with the development of urban area. At the city center and fringe area, competition among urban activities has caused changes in land use from residential use to non-residential use (trade and services/commercial). The current trend is the development of office activities (government and private) that has reached residential area. The change in land use is often inconsistent with the city spatial plan and has caused negative impacts physical, environment, and social. On one side, this problem reflects the weakness of land use…