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Re-thinking the garden city: Creating city in the city
Filed Under theory of architecture, urban design
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. 
Thus because of this concept was already developed in many cities, including organic cities.
We can see this garden city impact in many places. Sub-urban concentrate in surrounding areas, divided by streets and junctions, while the generator of people movement always held in city centers.
Traffic jam, pollution, accident potentials, and stress potential happen because of those traffic crowd makes psychological impact happen when there are public mass movement toward the downtown area to go to the activity places in the morning and in the evening (usually happen at 6:30am to 9:00am and 3:30pm to 6:00pm). This is the impact of “garden city”.
The solution of this problem is not only can be done with arrangement of streets as public movements, but also we should re-arrange the concept of this urban design in our city. Traffic signages, dispatch polices, traffic light countdown timer, and rapid public transportation only can minimize the impact, but not solving the problem.
The city itself needs to be divided into smaller groups, so that this idea is called: “re-thinking the garden city, creating city in the city”. The idea comes from the rationale to develop more downtown facilities in every center of these sub-urban areas. Sub-urban have to be the main generator of city’s development. It means, neighborhood can be used as inter connected cities.
Design and develop more shopping centers, entertainment places, commercial places, offices, and other services near of these sub-urban areas, while continuing the city beautification concept. So that people can go work, do their business, enjoy the entertainments and the atmosphere in these places. If we can stay near by our offices, or even live on the same building core, it can cut off our times, and of course, it can minimizes the gasoline expenditure.
This “city in the city” is the solution of these problems. Government sector can see this concept as one of good solutions, entrepreneurs can use it as a chance to develop their business, and of course, citizens enjoy the option to go to the nearest public services in each field of sectors, closest to their residential areas.
Architect, writer, and city observer.
Related article: Garden City and City Beautiful Movement Theory.
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Think that you should develop this one carefully, because we also sick about this issue today, the high price of gas! B)
I hope that future development does going to that conciseness, aware of the need that each settlement has. New urbanism movement in the northern hemisphere running to this goal, to make city more compact and arrange that each satellite city survive by its own. More and more of this concept also helps to reduce our ecological footprint to our beloved earth. With love…
Hmmm…I can suggest a good book to read for this matter “Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature” God I hate the word “sustainable” nowadays…so bloody commercial…
ok, to be honest, this is a nice concept! good luck!
Many things to consider on this one. Crime, pollution (in its many forms), economy, sustainability, and distance. I say distance because if you go back to the era of the Myans and the Incas, there was a similar society but the challenge was always the distance from food and other societies. We are facing similar global problems where the distance to local corn, rice and so on is heavily being affected.
This has given me a new direction to think about as I would not have thought about it myself, although im not convinced its the best approach ……