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Determinants of vacant subsidized house in Greater Metropolitan Jakarta Area, Indonesia
No full textThis paper explores the determinants of vacant subsidised housing in Jakarta. In a long race with the ever-growing housing backlog in Indonesia, in 2010, the government in partnership with private developers and banks, launched a subsidised housing provision programme. Affordable fixed-price houses with very low interest rates and down-payments were made available to individuals with low incomes. However, between 2010 and 2016, approximately one-fifth of the total purchased subsidised houses remained vacant. A snowball sampling method was used to recruit respondents in the Greater Metropolitan Jakarta Area, with whom semi-structured interviews were then conducted. The focus of this paper is the determinants that make low-income families reluctant to move into subsidised housing. The research has identified socio-cultural context and mistargeted beneficiaries as determinants, complementing existing literature on vacant housing and housing provision policy.</p
The morphology and characteristics of livable public space in gated community settlement of Medan City, Indonesia
No full textThe existence of the gated community in Indonesia was formed based on the similarities between ethnic groups as observed in Balinese, Arab, Chinese, and several other villages. This initiative was further improved in the 70s through the government’s efforts to encourage the involvement of private developers in the housing sector and this led to the emergence of the second form of a gated community which is a closed residential area with legally privatized public spaces. The morphology of these public spaces, however, has different typologies and characteristics based on the form, utilization, and on-going activities. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the morphology and characteristics of public spaces in gated community settlements in order to understand the criteria to plan public spaces and shape livable space in the study area. The research used the descriptive qualitative method with variables such as the form, type, activity, and use of public space in gated community settlements. Data were collected through interviews, questionnaires, and field observations, and the results are expected to be able to determine the criteria to design livable public spaces in gated community settlements.</p
A focus on the hearth: What a detailed investigation of fireplaces in Boncuklu and catalhoyuk reveals about Neolithic household practice
No full textThis study shows that the availability, construction, shape, size, location and decommissioning of fireplaces are determined by practical requirements and that conversely variations and changes in the construction and location of fireplaces disclose daily practices and long-term circumstances of prehistoric life. It investigates fireplaces in the central Anatolian Neolithic settlements of Boncuklu (8300–7800 cal BC) and Çatalhöyük (levels South L-S, and North G-H, 6700–6000 cal BC) exploring how far fireplaces reflect the emergence of autonomous households during the sedentarizing process. Considering the fireplace mainly under the aspects of symbolic and social significance, highlighting standardisation and continuity misses the insights that a detailed observation of variations can give. This study provides a classification of fireplace-types that can be used for the analysis of fireplaces in other sites. Collating the information on fireplaces for each site chronologically according to stratigraphy reveals that the construction and availability of fireplaces met the needs of a growing or diminishing household, where available resources, light, warmth, ventilation, accessibility, room layout, cooking methods were decisive considerations. Because in Boncuklu fireplaces were frequently located in communally accessible spaces, while in Çatalhöyük fireplaces were mainly used by individual households, this study confirms a trend over the long-term to more autonomous households that relied on their own provision for heating, light, cooking and craft manufacturing in their houses.
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Space making and home making in the world’s first villages: Reconsidering the circular to rectangular architectural transition in the Central Anatolian Neolithic
No full textIn the beginning of the 8th millennium BCE, the people of Aşıklı Höyük dramatically changed how they constructed their buildings. People no longer constructed circular, semi-subterranean residential buildings and instead started to build above ground rectangular buildings. The long-term Aşıklı Höyük excavations help us understand the tempo and organization of this important evolutionary transition. This study advances discussion in three ways: 1) it provides a fine grained understanding of the diachronic shift in social and economic practices, 2) through broad horizontal excavation, this research provides new insights into the built environment, including the opportunity to understand the synchronic organization of residential and non-residential spaces, and 3) this study puts forth a detailed understanding of the evolutionary shift from circular-oval to rectangular architectural practices within a single residential setting. Collectively, the long-term research project at Aşıklı Höyük, with extensive horizontal excavations and detailed radiocarbon dating project, advances our understanding of the changing social and economic context of the transition from circular to rectangular residential buildings.</p
Revisiting a colonial landmark: caravanserais as tools of urban transformation in early colonial Tanzania
No full textThis article uncovers the colonial past of the Bagamoyo Caravanserai, a historic site in the Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo. Situating the origin of the building, as well as that of a similar structure in Dar es Salaam, within the context of both German colonial rule around 1900 and the wider history of colonial camps in Africa, it argues that the colonial authorities conceptualised caravanserais as spatial tools of demobilising and concentrating the non-sedentary group of porters working in the East African caravan trade. Based on primary sources from Tanzanian and German archives, the analysis contends that it was the aim of these tools to disentangle the thousands of transport workers, staying in the towns during the annual trade season, from the urban population for the purpose of social and sanitary control. The analysis also discusses the limitations of this regime, revealing the struggles over space and the ways in which African workers subverted colonial urban transformation.</p
The Indian City and its ‘Restive Publics’
No full textHow do we write about cities in a world of deepening inequality, real-estate geopolitics, and the planetary water crisis that is unfolding in parts of Asia and elsewhere? Indian urban studies, which began to gain ground as a legitimate subject of scholarly enquiry two decades ago, has now emerged as a site to study political society, state-making, and citizenship, and to offer rich accounts of how post-colonial urban governance and law-making work. In this review, I explore the powerful analytics developed in three recent books in urban studies: Anindita Ghosh's historical work on colonial Calcutta, Claiming the City: Protest, Crime and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1860–1920 (2016); Asher Ghertner's geographical analysis of neoliberal Delhi, Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi (2015); and Nikhil Anand's ethnographic account of restive publics and citizenship in Mumbai, Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (2017). This recent scholarship on urbanization has moved away from earlier rubrics of segregation, biopolitical disciplining, and resistance to offer rich accounts of the frictions that make and unmake political societies, critical tools to study the life of law in post-colonial cities, infrastructures as sites for the production of citizenship, and new financial and legal assemblages of risk-management, building lobbies, and syndicates around which urban politics is swirling. These accounts also deepen our understanding of the long genealogy of the contemporary moment, including populism, electoral politics, and post-colonial state-making. Indeed, the future of urban studies in a rapidly urbanizing world should be one that helps us to understand the nature of politics, contestations around legalities, environmental crises, and new financial geographies of power and dispossession.</p
China’s foreign aid architecture in a transitional period, 1964–1976
No full textThis paper reviews China’s foreign aid architecture in a transitional period, from 1964 to 1976. After Zhou Enlai’s 1964 trip to Africa and Asia, China’s foreign aid architecture was increasingly used as an important diplomatic tool, echoing with the shift of China’s foreign policy from the export of revolution to the export of peaceful development. In these years before Chairman Mao Zedong died in 1976, both a “Maoist pragmatism” in foreign policy and a “Chinese modernism” in architectural design matured in relation to each other. This paper examines the evolution of China’s foreign policy, foreign aid architecture, and the associated multidirectional knowledge exchange between China and other countries in this period. Tanzania-Zambia Railway (TAZARA) Terminus in Dar es Salaam built in 1976 is selected for an in-depth case study to demonstrate the presence of a Chinese modernism in architecture as an alternative approach to the Western post-war modernist trends.</p
Migrating architectures: Palladio’s legacy from Calcutta to New Delhi
No full textPalladianism, which originated in Italy, is a style of architecture which spread widely across the world and has been extensively studied. It is known that it migrated to the UK during the eighteenth century at the same time as it did to Germany through Georg Knobelsdorff, to Russia through the work of Charles Cameron and Giacomo Quarenghi, to the US through Thomas Jefferson between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and was adopted in Poland, Sweden, and elsewhere. Palladianism became a tool of politicians and a status symbol for the elites to differentiate themselves from the common man. There are a few studies on the migration and adoption of Palladianism in India, primarily in relation to Calcutta’s architecture between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In particular, there is specific research focusing on Lord Wellesley’s Palladian building programme, frequently highlighting the relationship between Government House, Calcutta and Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. This essay focuses on the subject of the migration of Palladian architecture and, in particular, on its adoption by the capitals of India, Calcutta and Delhi, on the basis of primary archival material.</p