Once a back area, water ways are no longer looked at being something to be hidden for. This is a good way to promote hygene and also to observe flood before it comes. During the last decades, waterfront redesign has been in trend to change a facce of a city. The pictures was taken from 3 different cities (left-right above-right down; Yogya, Shanghai, Paris), although the quality of the design is not comparable, the attention and message are clear, waterfront is exactly ‘a front’ piece.

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Anyone familiar with Surabaya will definitely know Dolly, a red-light district, which, some people have mentioned to be one of South Asia’s largest. The fact that Dolly is a big thing certainly means that it has great potentials especially in contributing to regional income. Not only that, other businesses (non-sex-oriented) flourish in the area as a result of Dolly’s magnetic potentials. However, behind all its fame, Dolly also causes a degree of uneasiness to residents who live in the vicinity by spawning excess activities such as crime and drug abuse. Read more

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