Rapid urbanization in Asian developing countries has led to large urban agglomerations
called “megacities.” The Jakarta megacity keeps growing and has extended along a corridor …

Questions of who can access land and who is excluded from it underlie many recent social
and political conflicts in Southeast Asia. Powers of Exclusion examines the key processes …

This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different
phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking a broad …

In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been
revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and …

Over the last two decades, suburban studies have emerged from a call for a new conceptual
order to go beyond the traditional dichotomies of the urban realm, namely, the centre …

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 …

The physical development of the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA) and the Bandung
Metropolitan Area (BMA) is characterized by the formation of an urban belt from Jakarta to …

In this book, the first on the planning history of Jarkarta, able expert Christopher Silver
describes how planning has shaped urban development in Southeast Asia, and in particular …

Suburbia. Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly
recognisable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of thirties …

This article examines the impacts of economic development on land conversion in the
Northern Region of West Java (NRWJ) and discusses their implications for urban and …