REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION IN SEMARANG CITY, INDONESIA
REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION IN SEMARANG CITY, INDONESIA

Summary/Abstract: Endowed with rapidly changing physical and socio-economic conditions,Semarang City in Central Java Province serves as an interesting case study of Indonesia’surban transformation. Secondary data, coupled with field observations and in-depthinterviews with key informants and experts, were analyzed using both qualitative andquantitative descriptive methods to show complex variations in urban evolution betweenSemarang’s numerous districts, with changes occurring much faster in some locations thanin others. We show that urbanisation proceeds most rapidly where vacant open spaces andinvestment in various kinds of new public infrastructure are dominant, especially in suchdistricts as Tembalang, Gunungpati, Genuk and Pedurungan. In contrast, transformationprocesses operate more slowly in Semarang’s saturated inner core.

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