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Call for Paper : 2013 Cities International Seminar: ‘Resilient Cities: Beyond mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery’
By Prananda Navitas on April 6, 2013
CITIES is an annual event hosted by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember. Since the first time it was held, CITIES has covered a broad range of topics in spatial sciences. This year, CITIES aims to explore the theme ‘Resilient Cities: Beyond mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery’. Accelerated urbanization, especially [...]
Culture Industry & Indonesia’s Traditional Markets
By Prananda Navitas on 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 [...]
Abandoned Projects; Eyesores in Metropolis
By Prananda Navitas on February 16, 2009
Since the world is now discussing about the so-called Global Economic Crisis, we thought it would be appropriate if we discussed a little bit about abandoned projects in the metropolitan. In this case, we take a look at two abandoned projects in Surabaya. What has these abandoned projects to do with global economics? Well, one [...]
Mushalla; The Neglected Facility
By Prananda Navitas on January 15, 2009
Malls and shopping centres have become, like it or not, an integral part of our urban lifestyle. Metropolitan cities in Indonesia such as Surabaya, and Jakarta,are basically flooded with this type of shopping facility. As shopping, and/or, mall-hopping has become a culture, some people actually spend all day in shopping centers, even consider them as [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
