Growth of a Megacity: Planning Jakarta in the Post-Suburban Era

Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia, has grown from 150,000 residents in the first half of the twentieth century to more than 31 million in 2024. This explosive growth has reshaped the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA), also known as Jabodetabek, presenting complex challenges and highlighting the critical role of urban planning. This edited volume explores Jakarta’s evolving urban landscape through the lens of post-suburbanization. While the city exhibits traits of post-suburban development, its central areas continue to attract population and investment, suggesting a unique, early-stage form of post-suburban growth. Across the inner city and surrounding suburbs, physical, social, and economic transformations are underway—marked by uneven patterns of inclusion, displacement, and redevelopment.

The book adopts a multi-dimensional perspective, examining changes in residential, industrial, and commercial development, alongside impacts on employment, infrastructure, environmental degradation, and social dynamics such as segregation and gentrification. As the first comprehensive study of Jakarta’s post-suburbanization, this volume brings together twenty-two contributors, including academics, planners, urban designers, and architects, to assess planning practices and policy responses. Organized into four thematic sections—economic development, environmental challenges, housing and public space, and gentrification and displacement—it offers critical insights and forward-looking strategies for shaping the JMA over the next twenty years.

A vital contribution to urban planning literature in Indonesia, Growth of a Megacity provides a timely and accessible analysis for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners navigating Jakarta’s complex urban future.

Routledge Handbook of Urban Indonesia 1st Edition

This handbook focuses on the practices, initiatives, and innovations of urban planning in response to the rapid urbanisation in Indonesian cities.

The book provides rigorous evidence of planning Indonesian cities of different sizes. Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, is increasingly urbanising. Through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals, chapters examine specific policies and projects and analyse 19 cities, ranging from a megacity of over ten million residents to metropolitan cities, large cities, medium cities, and small cities in Indonesia. The handbook provides a diverse view of urban conditions in the country. Discussing current trends and challenges in urban planning and development in Indonesia, it covers a wide range of topics organised into five main themes: Indonesian planning context; informality, insurgency, and social inclusion; design, spatial, and economic practices; creative and innovative practices; and urban sustainability and resilience.

Written by 64 established and emerging scholars from Indonesia and overseas, this handbook is an invaluable resource to academics working on Urban Studies, Development Studies, Asian and Southeast Studies as well as to policy-makers in Indonesia and in other cities of the Global South.

Residential Origins of the Homeless: Spatial Distribution Analysis and Implications to Homelessness Prevention Interventions Paperback – August 16, 2012

Over two decades, many studies have attempted to identify the factors that correspond to the spatial distribution of homelessness. They used data on where people end up as homeless. Such studies could not reveal where the homeless come from and what process contributes to the vulnerability of individuals on the brink of homelessness. This book seeks the geographic distribution of residential origins of different categories of the homeless and categorizes homeless people based on gender, family status, the occurrence of alcohol, drug, and mental health, chronicity, and veteran status. Specifically, this book addresses two research questions: 1. Does the spatial distribution of residential origins of each homeless category differ? And 2. What demographic, socioeconomic, and housing factors are associated with the spatial distribution of residential origins of each homeless category? The book also demonstrates the application of Geographic Information System in the homelessness context. The book contributes to the discussion of homelessness particularly on homelessness prevention interventions and will greatly benefit scholars and practitioners on homelessness issues.

Bunga Rampai Pemikiran Akademisi Indonesia di Amerika Serikat

Kementerian Riset Teknologi dan Pendidikan Tinggi melalui Direktorat Jenderal Sumber Daya Ilmu Pengetahuan, Teknologi dan Pendidikan Tinggi (SDID) mengundang lebih dari 70 ilmuwan diaspora untuk berpartisipasi dalam kegiatan World Class Visiting Professor 2016 dan Simposium Cendekia Kelas Dunia (SCKD) 2017 di Jakarta. Dalam kedua kegiatan tersebut, para ilmuwan diaspora diminta untuk bersinergi dengan para akademisi di berbagai perguruan tinggi di tanah air. Kegiatan tersebut menjadi media untuk berdiskusi, bertukar pikiran dan menjalin kolaborasi pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan riset antara akademisi di tanah air dan ilmuwan diaspora Indonesia.

Buku ini merupakan kumpulan tulisan dari beberapa ilmuwan diaspora yang terlibat dalam kegiatan di atas dan diharapkan dapat berkontribusi sebesar-besarnya dalam memajukan ilmu pengetahuan dan riset di Indonesia.

Bunga Rampai Kontribusi Ilmuwan Diaspora Dalam Pengembangan Sumber Daya IPTEK & DIKTI di Indonesia

Penulisan buku ini berawal dari percakapan lepas kami berdua pada awal tahun 2016 ketika bertemu di Washington, DC beberapa minggu setelah Ismunandar mulai bertugas sebagai sebagai Atase Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan KBRI Washington DC. Kebetulan kami berdua dari tahun angkatan dan almamater yang sama di Institut Teknologi Bandung.

Percakapan singkat berlanjut dengan upaya mengidentifikasi akademisi-akademisi asal Indonesia yang bekerja di perguruan tinggi di Amerika Serikat baik sebagai tenaga pengajar ataupun tenaga peneliti. Kami mencari data dan informasi mengenai para akademisi tersebut melalui beragam sumber termasuk database yang dimiliki oleh kantor Atase Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan KBRI Washington DC, Ikatan Ilmuwan Indonesia Internasional (I-4) dan ASIRPA (The Asian Society for International Relations and Public Affairs).

Besar harapan kami agar kumpulan tulisan dari akademisi asal Indonesia di Amerika Serikat ini dapat memberikan inspirasi bagi para pembaca. Pengamatan terhadap beragam hal di Amerika Serikat yang dilakukan oleh akademisi asal Indonesia selama mereka bekerja dan bekarya di Amerika Serikat diharapkan dapat bermanfaat bagi kemajuan masyarakat ilmiah dan/atau masyarakat umum di Indonesia.

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South (Routledge Handbooks) 1st Edition

Cities are now home to 55% of the world’s population, and that number is rising. Urban populations across the world will continue to grow, including in megacities with populations over ten million. In 2016 there were 31 megacities globally, according to the United Nations’ World Cities Report, with 24 of those cities located in the Global South. That number is expected to rise to 41 by 2030, with all ten new megacities in the Global South where the processes of urbanization are intrinsically distinct from those in the Global North.

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South provides rigorous comparative analyses, discussing the challenges, processes, best practices, and initiatives of urbanization in Middle America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. This book is indispensable reading for students and scholars of urban planning, and its significance as a resource will only continue to grow as urbanization reshapes the global population.