Vol. 12 No. 4 (2001)

Social equity in urban infrastructure planning is important, especially where the infrastructure investment is high, and charging systems are applied: this will lead some people could not afford a fair delivery of services. The role of the planners is important to secure infrastructure delivery for the poor within the adopted and applied planning system in a respective country to anticipate the trend of privatization in production and delivery of infrastructure and services.

Regionalization is a method to understand a region based on the characteristic according to its potency and problems. Regionalization in relation with development is a regional grouping based on the possibì1iy of its development As a consequance regionalization assessment has become an important necessity for regional development planning. Based on the reasons mentioned above, this research is intended to: (1) arrange regions based on the potency of various development sectors, (2) identity leading sectors at each kecamatan, (3) utilize regionalization to determine regional priority and…

This article is a research study aimed to implement demand approach on wafer supply development in East Java province. Data collecting is conducted through field and institutional survey to obtain actual and behavioral variables. System analysis is operated to project the water supply development dynamically. The research showed that pricing policy and PDAM

This article questions the unclear policy direction and development program of urban housing in Indonesia and suggests some basic changes. The main message of this article is that housing development program in Indonesia should emphasize on creating a condition that enables the community to build their own houses (community enabling). A policy that is totally market oriented and emphasizes on economic efficiency (market enabling) is not abandoned, bus should be develop without sacrificing the aspect of social justice.

This paper aims to examine the pattern of urban spatial structure development, using Bandung as a case of Indonesian metropolitan cities during the period of 1980-1993. Monocentric, polycentric, and omnicentric density function models are explored respectively as a basis to be tested in metropolitan Bandung. It argues that the polycentric density functions statistically predict the better distribution of worker residences than monocentric ones. This finding suggests that polycentricism of spatial structure exists in metropolitan Bandung although it further shows that the dependence of worker…