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THE RELATIONSHIP OF HOME RENOVATION AND GENDER AT SUBURBAN HOUSING OF SEMARANG CITY IN INDONESIA
Authors: Landung Esariti, Marsella Putri, Fitri Fauziah, Diah Dewi
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore gender influence on home renovation based on family life cycle in suburban housing of Bukit Kencana Jaya Semarang, Indonesia. Sixty households were interviewed and the resulting data were analyzed using the mix method. This attempt is important to determine the gender roles and relations influencing housing demand policies. The result showed most renovation activities were conducted on families with children, in addition to formulating two deductions. First, in single and new couples, gender productive roles tend to support house function in terms of economic existence and societal perception. Second, in families with children and elderly, these utilities serve as a habitat for income sources and welfare support.
Keywords: family life cycle; gender; home renovation
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Received: February 14, 2021 | Revised: May 24, 2021 | Accepted: May 27, 2021
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ADAPTATION OF FLOATING HOUSES (RUMAH LANTING) TO THE TIDES OF THE MELAWI RIVER IN WEST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA
Authors: Jawas Dwijo Putro, Zairin Zain
Abstract: Floating houses or Rumah Lanting are one of the settlement cultures found in most river streams in Kalimantan and are observed to be different from several other houses in the area. They are mitigationproof houses designed to respond to the risk of disasters usually experienced in the traditional settlements of West Kalimantan. Their structures have the ability to adapt to environmental conditions including natural disasters such as the river tides routinely experienced as a flood during the rainy season and as ebb in the dry season. This study aimed to identify the human-adaptation process existing in these floating houses through direct observation for two years during the dry and rainy seasons as well as in-depth interviews conducted with occupants of these buildings. The adaptation processes identified include the active and passive adaptation of the dwellers. The active aspect was observed from the behavior of occupants in accommodating the occurrence of disaster in the surrounding environment while the passive was identified as the physical changes implemented in the building to mitigate the disaster. The focus of this research was on some dwellings on the river banks settlement in the Melawi River near Sintang Regency of West Kalimantan Province and a qualitative approach with a case study was implemented. The samples were determined through a non-probability approach in the form of a purposive sampling method based on certain selected criteria which included the previous experience of ebb and flow of river water in the Rumah Lanting. The results showed the existence of active and passive adaptations for the dwellers of the floating houses in West Kalimantan. The active aspect observed involves the behavior of the occupants in adapting to natural disasters with the focus on the changes in the activity patterns, territory, and privacy. Meanwhile, the passive aspect showed some modifications in the architectural elements of the building such as the position, orientation, access, and function.
Keywords: Floating House; Active Adaptation; Passive Adaptation
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Received: January 19, 2021 | Revised: May 07, 2021 | Accepted: May 21, 2021
INVESTIGATING OUTDOOR THERMAL COMFORT OF EDUCATIONAL BUILDING COMPLEX IN URBAN AREA: A CASE STUDY IN UNIVERSITAS KEBANGSAAN, BANDUNG CITY
Authors: Try Ramadhan, Aldissain Jurizat, Andina Syafrina, Amat Rahmat
Abstract: Campus building was a place to accommodate various educational activities, which were both carried out indoors and outdoors. The environment, including the building and its exterior, provided thermal comfort that was influenced by the context, such as the mass of the facility, vegetation, and constructing envelope materials. The microclimate also influenced the environment, such as temperature, wind speed, and humidity. This study aimed to investigate the outdoor thermal comfort of campus building in urban area during summer, while also identifying the influential factors. This research referred to a case study, examining the thermal quality of the educational building environment using ENVI-met software, based on the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) index as an indicator of outdoor thermal comfort, in Universitas Kebangsaan (UK). The results showed that the outdoor environment had low thermal comfort conditions during the day, as it also had different thermal satisfactory situations, due to differences in physical characteristics in each zone. This characteristics included, (1) The SVF determinant as indicators of the shading factor should be supported by the presence of vegetation and the use of pavement material, (2) Although the wind speed factor does not really affect the thermal comfort in the outdoor space, the interconnection between open gaps is likely to make breeze distribution in the area better. This study offered direction for campus planning, in order to maintain the optimal capacity of the natural environment, such as (1) Strategizing to create a better shadowing factor in the outer space, which was supported by controlling the use of pavement materials, (2) Directing the density of buildings by making open spaces more permeable, in order for better wind distribution in the area. From this study, the campus current conditions and future design development potential was also observed.
Keywords: Outdoor thermal comfort; Educational building; Urban area; Micro climate; PMV
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Received: January 20, 2021 | Revised: April 09, 2021 | Accepted: May 03, 2021
MEASURING NEIGHBOURHOOD HARDSHIPS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD CHANGE BETWEEN 2010-2015 IN SUBURBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS OF BUFFALO METROPOLITAN AREA, NEW YORK
Authors: Ilhamdaniah Saleh
Abstract: Neighbourhoods in urban and suburban areas experienced changes in terms of physical, social, economic, and demographics. Neighbourhood Hardship Index (NHI) had been used to measure neighbourhood socio-economic condition, using various census variables. Suburban neighbourhoods which underwent a change lead to stratification into striving outer suburbs and declining inner suburbs. The context of this study was suburban neighbourhoods in Buffalo Metropolitan Area (BMA), New York. This paper aimed at highlighting spatial variability of neighbourhood change in inner- and outer-suburban neighbourhoods of BMA between 2010-2015. This study examined factors that significantly contribute to neighbourhood change. Also, this study examined whether there a difference in the change of neighbourhood hardship index between inner- and outer-suburban neighbourhoods. Composite NHI was developed from economic, demographic, and housing variables. Neighbourhood change was measured by comparing the composite NHI 2010 with that of 2015. The findings depicted a variation of change in hardships index across suburban neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods with higher hardship index were primarily located in inner suburbs. Policy implications call for concerted efforts to tackle the decline in the economy, education, demography to promote equity across neighbourhoods in suburban areas.
Keywords: suburban neighbourhood; neighbourhood change; suburban stratification; Neighbourhood Hardship Index
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Received: February 14, 2021 | Revised: May 26, 2021 | Accepted: May 27, 2021
PROMOTING URBAN WATER BODIES AS A POTENTIAL STRATEGY TO IMPROVE URBAN THERMAL ENVIRONMENT
Authors: Nedyomukti Imam Syafii
Abstract: Cities are found warmer than in nearby surrounding rural areas due to change in surface properties and lack of evaporation, indicated as urban heat island (UHI). On the other hand, bodies of water have been known to generate a positive impact on the urban microclimate by maintaining a cooler thermal environment. Although researchers have been conducted many experiments and measurements to illustrate its potential benefits, most of them are studied in terms of its capacity to ameliorate the air temperature. In this paper, the benefits of urban water bodies are evaluated regarding their radiation properties. With the main objectives to find a novel approach to take advantage of urban water bodies’ abilities to improve the urban thermal environment, a series of field measurements have been conducted inside an urban scale model. Generally, the measured long-wave and short-wave radiation within the urban canyon shows that bodies of water tend to absorb and store more heat, which in turn generate lower surface temperature as compared to those flat concrete surface.
Keywords: urban microclimate; water bodies; field measurement; outdoor scale model; radiation
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Received: January 20, 2021 | Revised: May 25, 2021 | Accepted: June 08, 2021
THE CONCEPT DESIGN FOR ADAPTATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH INTEGRATED AND SUSTAINABLE FLOOD INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE COASTAL AREA OF PEKALONGAN, INDONESIA
Authors: Suyudi Akbari Habibi, Arif Darmawan Pribadi, Jessica Elisabeth Sitorus
Abstract: The coastal area of Pekalongan, especially the estuary area of the Banger River, Loji River, and Gabus River, are often experiencing to tidal floods. Tidal Floods that occur pose a great risk due to the sedimentation of river mouths and floods from the watershed to the coastal area of Pekalongan. This study aims to assess the impact of climate change on flood frequency patterns and the contribution of each sub-watershed to the total discharge that occurs, as well as to analyze the effect of increasing sea level that occurs in the coastal area of Pekalongan. The method used in this research hydro-meteorological, hydraulic, and hydrodynamics two-dimensional analysis. The results showed that the climate change that occurred in the coastal area of Pekalongan was indicated by an increase in the average temperature of about 1o Celsius and the trend towards maximum yearly precipitationthat occurred during a period of twenty years had increased (2000-2019 period). An Increasing temperature that occurs has a significant risk to sea-level rise and increasing uncertainty hydrometeorological hazard (tidal flooding). Recommendations from this study are structuring the drainage system based on an integrated landscape arrangement concept to improve the economy, tourism, social, and environment to achieve sustainable coastal infrastructure.
Keywords: TidalFloods; Sea Water Rise, Pekalongan
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Received: February 13, 2021 | Revised: May 25, 2021 | Accepted: May 27, 2021
THE PERCEPTION OF PATHUMTHANI RESIDENTS TOWARD ITS ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SUBURBAN AREA OF THAILAND
Authors: Pawinee Iamtrakul, Sararad Chayphong
Abstract: The urbanization process is often concentrated mostly in urban areas, resulting into urban development sprawl. This has effects on the lifestyles and activities of urban people, which in turn significantly affects the health of the city. The quality of the urban environment plays an important role in public health with respect to urban issues ranging from quality of utilities and services to quality of life. This study aims to study the perception of Pathumthani residents toward its environmental quality through spatial cluster analysis. A total of 1,000 sets of data collected from the interview survey among residents or commuters traveling through Pathumthani province was used for this study. The residents’ response towards environmental factors was examined through the classification of their different opinions among built environment and health aspects. The statistical analysis which was performed in this study was cluster analysis to demonstrate its relationship. With the level of satisfaction on environment aspect and health status in indicating number of congenital diseases, the result of this study found that condition of living environment (through Likert scale) affects the urban health with statistical significance of (P <0.05). Therefore, provincial health policy should focus more on developing a healthy city in consistence with economic and social development while putting adequate mechanisms for environmental surveillance monitoring at the community level. The result of study can confirm the usefulness of this unconventional approach by asking residents or commuters about their satisfaction on built environment which can represent as an evidencebased planning approach by linking local people attitudes and translating them into creating liveable and better urban environmental quality. To have a good understanding of local people preferences, the recommendation to be given to the capacity of communities can be focused for improving people’s quality of life by providing better accessibility, high quality of infrastructures and services. Finally, a set of features of satisfied built environment can help to support the continued growth of the city in term of basic need and sufficiency provision of facility and utility system.
Keywords: built environmental; health; satisfaction; quality of life; urbanization
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Received: January 20, 2021 | Revised: June 20, 2021 | Accepted: June 20, 2021