Vol. 18 No. 3 (2007)

The notion of Power-law which arguably stands for the sign of complex system has been widely encountered in many natural and social phenomenons as upon which we hypothesize Indonesian cities

In the past, developing curricula for planning education in developing countries could mean asking for assistance from the western universities to set up a degree program, using western planning tools to be put into social and cultural specific of the developing countries. Most of such collaboration would ignore the potency of knowing the two different worlds. Those view is no longer appropriate as globalisation in planning discipline is inescapable, dualistic views on the planning in rich and poor countries has to be seen as a strong point for planning education especially because education…

In accordance with an effort to increase economic development for the welfare of the society, the government of Republic of Indonesia plan to develop infrastructures, including toll road, in a big scale. On the contrary to the high investment potential, there are some risks arise and have to be faced by government and investors. These risks has to be taken into account in investment cal culation as a whole and managed very well since the beginning so that it can be anticipated as early as possible. Risk management is a well and systematic approach to manage these risk, started from risk…

Pluralism is nothing new but plurality approach in planning theory is a recent reaction to the failture of rational comprehensive planning. Planning itself is considered to be "a good planning" if it could accommodate the plurality. The idea of plurality c an be explored in diversity and difference concepts as coined by Sandercock. This article aims to discuss plurality in planning theory using the phenomenon of urban heritage as one of multicultural city"Ÿs assets. Opportunity and limitation indeveloping the concepts are discussed to emphasize its contribution to planning theory and…

This paper aims to provide answerto the classical questions of the impact of spatial design or urban form to induce trip pattern. How policy makers should be advised with regard to the use of urban spatial structure design and land use tools to reduce traffic in urban area? Although some relationships between land use and travel appear straight forward, such as density and trip lenght these simple observed correlations are not so simple upon closer examination. Land use and travel linkages are both multidimensional and difficult to deconstruct. Rather, they represent complex interactions of…