Vernacular governance and spatial transformations of low-cost apartments in Klender, Jakarta, Indonesia
- PDF / 1,223,873 Bytes
- 21 Pages / 439.37 x 666.142 pts Page_size
- 45 Downloads / 141 Views
Vernacular governance and spatial transformations of low‑cost apartments in Klender, Jakarta, Indonesia Joko Adianto1 · Rossa Turpuk Gabe1 · Mohammad Fazrin Rahman2 Received: 12 November 2019 / Accepted: 25 September 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract This paper examines vernacular governance and spatial transformations of low-cost apartments (LCAs). LCAs are a plausible solution to housing shortages for the urban poor in cities that face constantly increasing land values and limited space. Although prohibited by law, various spatial transformations occur to meet immediate needs. This case study addresses the practice of vernacular governance in the spatial transformations of LCAs through the vernacularisation by nomotropism to meet residents’ needs and solve their problems without the government’s complicated bureaucracy. Atomisation occurs from the neighbourhood to the molecular scale, among next-door neighbours and by creating multiple, distinctive vernacular governances on each LCA floor. This study offers a new perspective on housing policy in terms of distributing decision making to the community, thus creating flexible appropriation of space to meet residents’ ever-changing and immediate needs. Keywords Vernacular · Governance · Nomotropism · Low-cost apartments · Spatial · Transformation
1 Introduction In most developing countries, governments have failed to anticipate the impact of rapid urbanisation by providing affordable housing (Jenkins et al. 2007), compelling the poor to resort to informal means of obtaining housing (Keivani and Werna 2001), such as self-help housing that often breeds slum settlements (UN-Habitat 2010). Nearly 500 million people in Asia live without habitable housing (Rempel 1996) and the number is accelerating at an * Rossa Turpuk Gabe [email protected] Joko Adianto [email protected] Mohammad Fazrin Rahman [email protected] 1
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Jawa Barat 16424, Indonesia
2
Design Research Lab, LabTanya, Tangerang Selatan, Indonesia
13
Vol.:(0123456789)
J. Adianto et al.
alarming rate (UN-Habitat 2012). There are 11.63% people living in slums areas in Indonesia (Statistics Indonesia 2013). Low-cost apartments (LCA) are a plausible solution to this inevitable problem (Aurand 2010), especially for the poor (Shetty 2001) who suffer from ever-increasing land values and limited development space in city centres (Wong 2010). LCAs enable the government to meet massive housing needs and free up land for other uses that contribute to quality urban living (Yuen 2009). Some Asian countries regard LCAs as one of the most practical options for providing decent shelters in highly populated cities (Rabe 2010), such as Singapore (Fincher 2007; Ha 2007), Hong Kong (Phang 2001), Kuala Lumpur (Yuen et al. 2006) and Seoul (Wai and Lai 2010). People like to live in places that are most compatible with their day-to-day lives (Chua 2000), and high-rise living in cities allows more people to live closer to a centr
Data Loading...
