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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Regional Planning

Planning, if it is to be successful, must start at the beginning. The beginning, according to Wright’s approach, is the total situation of a village or a metropolis in its statewide and multi-state region.regional_planning_new_commu.jpg

The country was really a number of natural “flow Read more

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This article currently published in national newspaper kompas.com, with titled=

Konsep “Kota dalam Kota” di Kota Semarang

 The old concept about “garden city” (Ebenezer Howard, town planner and English parliamentary member) that stated that city for living, city for working, should be held between commercial areas, is just an ancient theory, and cannot be implemented today because of it has cast a lot of problems. newgardencity.jpgThus because of this concept was already developed in many cities, including organic cities. Read more

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I came home to the smell of half burnt coal, traditional incense, and the hide out between alleys of the busy street of Yogya. Many memories hit realities that during these years while I was a way venturing the world, things had certainly also changed there. There’s a different beauty you will find here in contrast with Venice. Although both have similar canal view, they are not comparable.

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There are two theory described here about urban design and urban planning, those are the garden city movement and the city beautiful movement.

The Garden City Movement and a Scientific Approach

In his influential book Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform (1898), Ebenezer Howard, an English parliamentary stenographer, showed how workable and livable towns could be formed within the capitalist framework. Read more

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