Many of the significant urban transformations of the new century are taking place in the
developing world. In particular, informality, once associated with poor squatter settlements …

The concept of informality has often been misunderstood. Its, especially, urban character is
rarely appreciated. With respect to urban development, it was once thought to distinguish the …

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization
as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its …

The extent to which land and new town development has reinforced spatial segregation in
Jakarta Metropolitan Region (JMR) is discussed. The demand for new towns has been …

An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia,
and how people navigate dispossession​ The old aphorism" possession is nine-tenths of …

Indonesia's formal housing policies—self-help housing, public housing, and cross-
subsidization—have not adequately addressed housing provision for the urban poor. Most …

Across cities of the global South, major initiatives are underway to assemble land from
informal settlements in order to make it available for large-scale infrastructure and …

In recent years, geographers have made various forays into the burgeoning literature on
postcolonialism and mined it for new insights to enrich geographical concerns. While the …

The threat of flooding in cities is often compounded by political and economic decisions
made on watershed management, land development and water infrastructure and …

This study discusses land conversion in the urban fringes of large cities in Indonesia during
the period of economic boom and time of economic crisis. The land conversion in the 1990s …