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Surabaya Design Week 2008
By Prananda Navitas on September 14, 2008
DESIGN UNLEASHED November 7th – November 9th 2008 – Kota Surabaya sebagaimana kota besar di Indonesia tentunya memiliki permasalahan multidimensional yang cukup pelik. Sebagai sebuah kota tentulah Surabaya dituntut untuk bisa menyediakan sarana/fasilitas dan prasarana beserta pelayanannya yang memadai kepada warganya, sehingga warganya dapat ‘hidup’ secara ekonomi, manusiawi dan berbudaya (civilized society). Dengan segala keterbatasan [...]
Tackling Congestion: Railway, Busway, or Highway?
By Prananda Navitas on September 11, 2008
Indonesia had almost 9 million motorized vehicles in 1990, of which 70% were motorcycles and 15% were cars. The motorized vehicle fleet increased in line with the urban population. There were 5 motorized vehicles for every 100 persons in 1990. The percentage of urban households owning a non-motorized vehicle in 1989 was only slightly higher [...]
Managing A Bunch of People’s S***s
By Prananda Navitas on September 11, 2008
“It is predicted that without the 3R program, by 2012 Surabaya’s landfills will be totally paralyzed by the enormous amount of trash produced per day. Thus a zero waste solution must be devised; preferably a simple, cost-efficient, and community-based method.” Everyone knows that trash, rubbish, garbage; whatever you want to call it, society’s refuse is [...]
Taking The Plan-less Concept Further; Challenging Urban Land-use Issues
By Prananda Navitas on September 11, 2008
The Plan-less Concept is strongly related to Catalytic Planning; both being strategic approaches. Although referred to as Plan-less, but this does not mean that the planning was conceived without any thoughts or considerations. This planning model does not, in the end, come up with an actual plan as regular planning models do; its end result, [...]
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The Impact of Climate Change: We Need to Act, Not Simply React
January 18, 2013
The effects of climate change including sea level rise, extreme heat, storm surges, threaten water supplies, and negative effects on the infrastructure. Climate change harms public health, as it will threatens human health and well-being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, diseases transmitted by insects, food and [...]
Moral Responsibility »
Local Wisdom Principe as a Greenship (Rating Tool) for Building
September 28, 2012
Indonesia has abundant of natural resources in terms of renewable energy according to climate change, which has already mainstreamed in most of Indonesia’s policies. Meanwhile, lack of inter-department coordination, limited access to information, and poor policy implementation just become the main weakness. One of this poor policy implementation is greenship for building. Greenship as a [...]
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Review of Indonesian Cities from European Perspective
January 27, 2013
This review was to expose general issues of Indonesian cities filtered through a framework of European urban standards, which were represented in two models of urbanity developed by Jacques Levy. The framework consists in 14 factors, with each one of them able to feed a separate lecture. It was read across from several Indonesian cities [...]
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Times Square New York as a Public Place
August 28, 2012
There are a lot of interesting places near Times Square, since this city relying their income from tourism sector. The Times Square located at the heart of New York City, and this place is always crowded for 24 hours. Stores and shopping centers are open everyday, as well as restaurants and cafes, many of them [...]
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- Call for Paper : 2013 Cities International Seminar: ‘Resilient Cities: Beyond mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery’
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Culture Industry & Indonesia’s Traditional Markets
June 7, 2009
Background: Traditionally, markets in Indonesia were not just places to trade goods and services, but also a place of cultural and social exchange. In the ancient days, markets open once a week (the Javanese calendar only has 5 days in a week; Pahing, Pon, Wage, Kliwon, and Legi) because the population was not as dense [...]
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Photograph of Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
March 12, 2012
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (often referred to as “The Guggenheim”) was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, as one of the 20th century’s most important architectural landmarks, especially because it’s unique building shape (formed in spiral shape). The museum is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), on [...]
