Disaster and resilience come at a cost. How much is lost, how much are we willing to pay, and how much can we afford to lose when disaster strikes? We search for quantifiable means to measure the amount of losses suffered when disaster strikes, and how much can be saved when mitigation and disaster preparedness schemes are put into practice?

The way we plan our cities and the built environment in general affect the way it performs in providing a safe, controllable, and comfortable content of activities. Spatial planning and urban design are considered as problem-solving methods in the built environment context.

“Are there possibilities for creative and innovative intervention? To what extent do urban planning and design affect the urban morphology, and what can they do to boost resilience in the built environment?”

The term ‘resilient city’ encompasses physical planning and interventions aimed only at the built environment. Resilience can only be achieved and sustained through thorough integration of both the built and the social environments. In this case, we ask: how can communities contribute to creating and improving resilience?

Planning a resilient city is a challenge to urban planning and all disciplines involved in general. CITIES, being a platform to disseminate research and planning practices, invites those who are interested in exploring the questions we pose to participate in the 2013 CITIES International Seminar.

TOPICS
CITIES covers (but not limited to) the following topics:

1. Climate change and its impact on the built environment;
2. Community and stakeholder engagement;
3. Planning concepts: creating, and re-creating urban and regional settings;
4. Contingency planning;
5. Disaster and resilience economics;
6. Disaster risk management;
7. Urban amenities and their role in enhancing resilience;
8. Hazards, vulnerability, and risk mapping and modeling;
9. Land use and transportation modeling;
10. Early warning systems: role and strategies;
11. Environmental carrying capacity;
12. Eco-regions and ecological footprint; and
13. Creative intervention measures

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Individual Papers
Those wishing to partake in the seminar are invited to send a 300 word abstract to: semnas.pwkits@gmail.com by June 5th 2013.

Panel
We also welcome proposals to organize a panel on a particular topic relevant to the conference theme. Panel coordinator should submit the names of panel members and their abstracts, and a moderator (if needed) by June 5th 2013 to the organizing committee through semnas.pwkits@gmail.com (write “Panel Proposal” as the email subject).

Poster
Those wishing to exhibit posters on research and projects (especially on creative and innovative intervention measures) relevant to the general theme and panel topics are encouraged to send an electronic draft of their posters (.jpeg max. file size 5mb – write “Poster” as email subject) to semnas.pwkits@gmail.com . Posters should be printed on A1 papers. The organizing committee will provide exhibition panels, exhibition space, and exhibition sessions. During exhibition, poster presenters should be available near their posters to provide explanation to other seminar participants.

IMPORTANT DATES
June 5th 2013 : abstract submission deadline
June 26th 2013 : abstract notification
August 26th 2013 : full paper submission deadline, early bird registration
September 13th 2013 : paper revisions
October 8th & 9th 2013 : 2013 Cities International

INFORMATION
For further information, please contact the organizing committee via:
semnas.pwkits@gmail.com (write “Inquiry” as the email subject)

1. Dimensions of poverty
2. Child-sensitive social protection  and poverty reduction
3. Inclusive social protection
4. Integrated social protection system
5. Enabling environment for social protection

Call for Papers for the Conference on “Child Poverty and Social Protection” , supported by the National Development Planning Board (BAPPENAS), UNICEF Indonesia, and the SMERU Research Institute, Jakarta, 10–11 September 2013. The papers will be selected from, but not limited to, the following issues:

• Dimension of poverty faced by children (individual or household dimension of poverty, deprivation and disparity, and general well-being of children) and ways to protect them.
• How to incorporate children’s needs in social protection scheme (health, nutrition, education, quality of care, child protection).
• Towards inclusive social protection (what is the most appropriate and effective social protection scheme or program to address specific groups of children under specific circumstances, e.g., gender, children, disability and ethnicity, universalvs targeted social protection scheme).
• Social protection for children vs poverty reduction strategy (what works best for children, who does what: national/local government, family/community based program, etc).
• Strengthening and expanding integrated social protection system: how to ensure age-specific vulnerabilities over the life cycle are addressed, particularly the various stages from birth up to adolescence?
• Strengthening and expanding integrated social protection system: what complementary measures/policies need to be in place to achieve social protection for children?
• Who are (still) left behind from social protection (looking at migrants and refugees, children out of school)?
• Enabling environment for social protection for children (supply-side complementary measures, role of family, schools,posyandu/health centers, government, social workers, community).
• Social protection, poverty reduction, and demographic bonus .
• Social protection impacts (for children in particular) and governance (financial-fiscal implications, delivery mechanisms, grievance and redress, etc.).

Background

Poverty affects people of all ages, but children are the single most affected group. Children living in poverty experience deprivation, exclusion, and vulnerability. They face multidimensional circumstance that creates various life-long difficulties. Poverty also denies children their rights and weakens their physical, psychological, and intellectual development.

Social protection is one way to reduce poverty and protect the people, including children, from falling into worse deprivation. It has gained substantial attention during the last decade as part of actions to reduce poverty and the vulnerability of the poorest and most marginalized people in the world. Social protection is defined as a set of public and private policies and programs aimed at preventing, reducing, and eliminating economic and social vulnerabilities to poverty and deprivation (UNICEF, 2012).

This conference, jointly organized by Bappenas, UNICEF Indonesia, and The SMERU Research Institute, is a venue to discuss and exchange experiences of social protection program implementation and researches among policymakers, researchers, and other agencies (international organizations and NGOs) in regard to improving policies and their delivery. Through presentations and publication of selected policy papers and posters, the conference will produce numerous policy recommendations to be used in support of evidence-based policy.

The objectives of the conference on “Child Poverty and Social Protection” are:

• To bring together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss problems, disseminate learning, and share international lessons-learned, existing policy research, and studies on various social protection schemes which, in particular, impact children;
• To provide evidence-based recommendations and policy advocacy for relevant government ministries/agencies, Bappenas, and development partners on child-sensitive social protection programs and provide input for program improvement and new initiatives;
• To publish the conference results for relevant stakeholders and the general public as part of information dissemination and advocacy towards social protection and child poverty;
• To strengthen and expand the Jaringan Peduli Anak Indonesia (Research and Evaluation Network on Child Issues in Indonesia), which consists of Indonesian researchers, government officials and policymakers, NGOs/CSOs, as well as practitioners.

Submission Procedures

This conference uses an online submission system (see the diagram below). Registration and online submission can be done at http://www.smeru.or.id/cpsp/registration.php.

Abstract submission: 28 February 2013

Announcement of selected abstracts: 1 April 2013

Submission of full papers and PowerPoint documents: 31 May 2013

The conference committee will provide accommodation and transport only for presenters residing in Indonesia. Presenters from outside Indonesia are to find their own sponsors for their participation in this conference, including for the accommodation and transport.

For more information, please contact Mukti Mulyana at +6221-3193-6336 (phone), +6221-3193-0850 (fax), orcpsp@smeru.or.id

]]> http://architectjournal.org/call-for-paper-conference-on-child-poverty-and-social-protection-supported-by-bappenas-unicef-indonesia-and-smeru-research-institute/feed/ 0 http://architectjournal.org/review-of-indonesian-cities-from-european-perspective/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-of-indonesian-cities-from-european-perspective http://architectjournal.org/review-of-indonesian-cities-from-european-perspective/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:19:28 +0000 Gall Podlaszewski http://architectjournal.org/?p=1040 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 explored during my visit (Bandung, Jakarta, Palembang, Yogyakarta). Indonesian cities constitute a specific model of urbanity, somewhere between and above the two extreme models of Levy’s  represented by the city of Amsterdam and Johannesburg (an essay titled The City IS Sustainable Development).

Indonesian cities could easily overcome the European ones in terms of urban ecology from issues of density (1) and compactness (2), two to three times more densely developed than London and consuming five to seven times living area per inhabitant. This could be a showcase of compact urban development equaled only by the center of Barcelona.

The morphology grants less cross-accessibility (3) to urban users, rendering it difficult to walk through the city. This is also hindered by overwhelmingly missing public spaces (4) and lacking pedestrian metrics (5). Co-presence of dwellings and jobs (6) is omnipresent as the living is often bound to working – in retail, or craftsmanship. These are the only prevalent activities (7) in the cities, apart from commuting and consuming. There is little space provided for urban pleasures determined by Jan Gehl in his “New City Life”, such as recreation, street culture, enjoyment of other people, sitting comfortably, or city strolling.

This places Indonesian cities farther from a post-materialist urbanity model. There are critical issues which remain unsolved. They are those of productivity (10) hindered by transport solutions unable to dissolve the permanent traffic jams (except from Yogya) and preservation of natural environment (11) failing due to persisting habits, but furthermore because of spatial planning being distorted through corruption of civil workers. The only perspective, thus, to improve the alert issues, as well as to make good use of the already existing strong sides of the Indonesian cities, remains social control and engagement. Yogyakarta’s resistance against the disadvantages of globalization, resulting from a community based progressiveness, is a living evidence that a positive self-valuation of all urban places (12) is possible and that it is here, you must just stand up and work it out together, rather through a transparent process of  democratic negotiation, than only the fine job of the Sultan in Yogyakarta or Eddie Santana in Palembang. Urban scale policy (14) must remain community based, as in the end it is always the community itself which is its subject.

This article was presented at Public Lecture in Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta, January 23rd, 2013.

This event will be held on :

Date           : Monday, 28 Januari 2013, 4:00pm – finished.
Place   : IVAA House, jl. Ireda Gang Hiperkes 188 A/B Kampung Dipowinatan, Keparakan, Mergangsan, Yogyakarta.
Speakers  : Abidin Kusno, dr, Ahmad Nashih Luthfi, and Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti.

Event from ivaa-online.org

Abidin Kusno, dr is an architect from Indonesia, also a lecturer in British-Columbia University, Institute of Asian Research, 1855 West Mall CK Choi Building, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2. Dr. Kusno is exploring the historical and contemporary conditions of urban politics and city life in Indonesia. His research, which examines the roles of cities in shaping the political cultures of decolonization, nation building, and development, provides a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of space, power, and culture, and contributes to urban advocacy. More of his bio

Book preview :

• title :  Zaman Baru Generasi Modernis, Sebuah Catatan Arsitektur
• author : Abidin Kusno, dr
• Publisher : Ombak Publisher
• ISBN : 978-602-7544-77-2

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 water and threats to mental health.

Human activities play primary role in causing climate change, and evidence is mounting that those changes will lead to more frequent extreme weather events. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that 2012 was the hottest year on record. Over the next 25 years or so, the agriculture sector is projected to be relatively resilient, even though there will be increasing disruptions from extreme heat, drought, and heavy downpours. Temperatures will rise 1 – 2 degrees Celsius in the coming decades in most areas. The chances of breaking high temperature extremes will continue to increase as the climate continues to change.

Incidence of extreme weather changes associated with climate change is a challenge to communities and settlements, because the largest population mostly located in informal areas, slopes, ravines and other risk-prone areas. System of settlement services such as water supply, food supply, energy resources, information systems, and sanitary disposal can also be affected by extreme climate change, and will cause flooding, landslides, fires and even hurricanes.

Cutting pollution below existing levels is the only way to combat global warming. Look up to what have done by Code riverside community in article: “living with flood“, Alachua County’s achievement on recycling 50% of their garbage, and how to create household waste water treatment. We need to act, not simply react. So what is yours?

Since 2008 to 2010, Obama and his family spent the Christmas holiday in this fully equipped vacation home. On the usual day it usually rented to regular tourists. Over the past two years, in 2011 and 2012, the house can not be rented by Obama (picture: paradisepointestates.com).

Glenn L. Weinberg, the owner, says that in 2012 the house can not be rented because he use the house for his own family. Before he knew Obama wanted to rent it again, the house already rented out to someone else.

Weinberg hopes Obama and family will be back on vacation at his home on Christmas break 2013. He said that in 2012 a fifth time, Obama and his family went to the same place, at Hawaii. He is very happy if Obama can go back.
This luxurious property has 6,000 square feet large equipped with five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a spa, and golf course. It also has a beautiful panoramic view towards the sea and swimming pool, only a few steps from Kailua Beach is famous for its beautiful white sand.

How to treat household waste water? This is very simple. Whether it’s for washing dishes, washing clothes, bathing, rinse water, or rain water plastic-pipe. Just put this waste water back into the ground with treatment.

Materials and tools:
plastic-pipe 1/2 inches, taste, fiber or fibers, corals (for cast stone), sand filter (1 m), nail sufficiently concrete, and compost / organic waste (can of dried leaves)
Hammer, wire clippers, hoes, trowel and cutter blade.

• Cut plastic-pipe (3 inches) with a cutter on one point (find the point where the water collects at the most).
• Dig the soil around plastic-pipe. Rectangular excavation to a depth of 1 meter, width and length as needed.
• Cut 0.5 inches plastic-pipe into small pieces along the 15 cm. plug in the pieces into the ground with hammer.
• Sprinkle compost or organic waste at the bottom level, the compost can be made from organic waste or dried leaves, smooth.
• put a coral or rocks on top of the compost, smooth. coral serves as a filter to purify the water.
• on the top layer, insert the coconut fiber. fiber will serve as a filter that will filter out the soap and the materials result from chemical products
• enter the sand filter. steel use scissors to cut the sides of the filter. insert the filter into the soil, and concrete nails with a nail. This sand filter function coco hold so it does not float. (See the video for the details)

This waste-water treatment can be applied to the home to save the environment.

Here, my climate change fellow friend, Sally Palmi, Alachua County Director for Waste Management shares her success story to us. Sally’s motivation to do this work because of the realization that world has limited resources that we must use wisely for the betterment of the future of the world. She said that everything each of us does has a cause and effect on another and another and another. Also, people are all connected and it is our responsibility to share our knowledge with everyone so that collectively we can preserve what we have on this earth and the future for others.

Alachua County also has mandatory recycling for businesses and apartments by work as liaisons with their businesses to assist them in creating sustainable recycling programs that are revenue producing for the benefit of the business.

Besides, Alachua County also creates contracts with a company whose main materials recovery facility specializes in source separated recycling. These recovered have a higher value than single stream recycled materials which is becoming more popular in the United States. The community believes that source separated materials not only bring a higher value but also result in a lower residual and rejection rate of the materials in the US and international markets. The County government also manages additional recycling programs like parks recycling, special events recycling, waste tire recycling, pharmaceutical recycling and more, and the staffs have also developed a tracking system which gives the ability to accurately tack and maintain our records, so that can creates accurately reports.

Alachua County had future plan to build a resource recovery park where businesses that manufacture goods made from recycled materials will located at site, so recycled materials will first be sorted then sent to the businesses for re manufacturing then be sold and distributed back into the community, a true closed loop system.

About the garbage bank (Bank Sampah) that become popular in Indonesia, Sally thinks this program can provides a great incentive for people to reduce waste, separate out the value added parts and get paid for it, because in US people can take certain recycling and sell it for cash, but their is nothing available for the what is considered the lower end market materials like organics and plastics. While in Indonesia, Sally noted that all materials are considered valuable and worth sorting from the waste stream. In United States, garbage in privately run landfills has a huge value to those businesses so changing the mindset from garbage dumping to resource recovery is a true challenge. That is why the rules and laws governing resource recovery are so important.

The key to successful resource recovery for other cities is to create and maintain the markets for recyclable materials. Sally also believe that the more we source separate materials and the higher quality materials we recover, the better the market demand for these materials will be. Most importantly, encouraging and educating citizens and businesses on the importance of using less stuff and creating less waste is the key to living more lightly on our planet.

Reference :

www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-change/

(Special thanks to Sally Palmi for the contribution of this article, re write of this article is prohibited)

The focus of this research study is to explain about annual flood problems that are faced by a Code Riverside kampung in Yogyakarta and to find opportunities and potencies of the site to reduce the risks from annual flood.

This thesis titled:

Living with Flood; Disaster Mitigation Assessment at Kampung Ratmakan, Code Riverside Settlement, Yogyakarta will take the readers into a journey to Kampung Ratmakan. Situated only hundreds metres from the famous Malioboro Street and Beringhardjo Market, behind buildings of Jalan Mayor Suryotomo and River Code, between two bridges on the north and south (Juminahan and Senopati) this kampung existed from the beginning of the city. This site is chosen to illustrate how a riverside kampung in the heart of Yogyakarta (the most populous city in Indonesia) is developed, its current condition and its annual flood problem.

Analysis done on the site is using observation method, completed with interviews; taking the residents as samples and some experts’ opinions, focusing specifically on annual flood happenings, flood related activities and site’s potencies. Methodology used to assess the site is taken from Pressure and Release framework by Wisner et. al.(2004).

The conclusion of the study explains how the inhabitants had survived through all these years living there, regardless of the annual flood. Findings in the research show that flood was caused by combination of site’s location, poor infrastructure, heavy undying rains, bad waste management and real estate development. Existing potencies in regard to flood is that this kampung has developed a traditional warning system and flood mitigation organizing actions, although without a formal frame.

Keywords: Riverside Kampung, Flood

An abstract for master defense from:

RR. Vicky Ariyanti, ST, M.Sc, M.Eng

Bauhauss University, Germany and TongJi University, Shanghai

Greenship as a rating tool for building is not being implemented yet until now, because it still generally refer to other building council’s regulation in different countries, while Indonesia stands for many special characteristics areas which have a lot of different characteristic compare one to another.

This difference can be accommodated by using “Local Wisdom Principe” as a greenship (rating tool) for architectural building. Local wisdom was generally refer to the long-standing traditions and practices of certain regional, indigenous, or local communities (wikipedia.org), for example, local wisdom said that the land you use, everything was belong to the nature, so replace what you’ve already take (ex. trees, etc). It refers to appropriate land use aspect in greenship draft. Appropriate land use can be implemented by creating beautification in surrounding area, and held activity support for community if possible which was stands for local wisdom in ecological concern of green building.

Picture: Traditional building in Desa Tenganan (Tenganan Village), Bali, this building was already well adapted to climate change.