Vol. 31 No. 2 (2020)

Living and working in the same unit is part of the everyday life of low-income people who live in slum areas to overcome their economic situation. However, when they are evicted from slums and relocated to Rusunawa (vertical public rental housing), their live-work life is no longer possible. Empirically, living in Rusunawa puts many residents in financial difficulties. This article is aimed to investigate the feasibility of a live-work housing concept for Rusunawa. Based on observations at Rusunawa Pesakih in West Jakarta, this article revealed that only 48% of a total of 64 commercial spaces…

A thorough knowledge of the sense of place concept is required to understand the relationship between a heritage place and the people doing activities in that place. A good understanding of the human dimension presence is one of the keys to achieving sustainable heritage conservation. Although the concept of sense of place has become part of spatial studies to explain place-people bonding, there is no universal agreement among scholars how to interpret this concept. As a basis for understanding sense of place in a heritage context, this paper proposes a concept of sense of place that was…

Although there is increasing knowledge about the role housing plays in promoting resilience in cities, studies on the socio-cultural and economic features of housing that enhance the capacity of public housing schemes to absorb the impacts of rapid population growth in cities of developing countries are limited. This article, therefore, explored the features of selected public residential estates in Abuja, Nigeria with the aim of revealing the socio-cultural and economic features of housing responsible for attracting and sustaining increasing numbers of residents in public housing…

For decades to come, cost-effective and environmentally appropriate water systems will be a priority for managing water scarcity and building resilience in the rapidly expanding cities and city regions of South Asia. This study initiates a research into urban local ponds and the potential of linking them with water systems and build resilience. A framework of questions guided the research with reference to ponds and prevalent water systems in South Asian cities and city regions. The wider issues of water stress in South Asian cities and the general limitations of prevalent water supply…

This paper presents the most important issues and premises for the targeted development of airport-related areas, with particular emphasis on the planned implementation of a so-called airport city in the immediate vicinity of an airport. The investigation sought to answer questions about how airports perform city- and region-forming functions, to systematize the existing concepts of the implementation of airport cities based on the relevant literature, and to present the principles of proper design of airport-related zones. Key premises for the development of airport cities and benefits for…

. Through Law No. 6 of 2014 concerning Villages, the government of Indonesia carries out a significant evolution by giving higher authority to the lowest level of regional government, namely the village level. This law also serves as a legal basis for the government of Indonesia to allocate village funds (dana desa) sourced from the Indonesian national budget (APBN) that are intended for villages to finance governance, development, community development, and village community empowerment. After almost five years of implementing this policy, the great euphoria over the high amount of village…