Self-Help Housing in Indonesia

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.31227/osf.io/jmvks ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

hendro muliarto

Keyword(s):

Housing Policy ◽

Urban Housing ◽

General Information ◽

The Self ◽

Urban Village ◽

Self Help ◽

Low Incomes ◽

Do It Yourself ◽

The City ◽

Urban Villages

The urgency of the problem of urban housing, presents the concept of self-help housing (self-help and do-it-yourself) who today continue to be expanded as new housing policy that is pro-poor to actively support the citizens to build housing initiative itself and reduce the burden of government in the provision of housing. Indonesia's self-help housing is often associated with urban village. Self-help housing means build house your own self without government help and the urban village is a village located in the city inhabited by natives and immigrants with low incomes. This urban village itself is often associated with the legality status of land, disorder and squalor than the forerunner of strong housing. In some cases urban villages deemed to have disturbing demolished and cause various conflicts between citizens and government. This paper wants to show the self-help housing formations in Indonesia in addition to get general information of self-help housing and to know about the sustainability of self-help housing in Indonesia.

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Enabling Collaborative Action between Self-Help Groups and Rural Local Bodies through an Exploratory Workshop: The Case of a Peri-Urban Village in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11061680 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 1680 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Richa Kandpal ◽

Izuru Saizen

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Metropolitan Region ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Urban Village ◽

Self Help ◽

Governance Challenges ◽

Self Help Groups ◽

Urban Villages

Peri-urban areas in developing countries pose unique governance challenges because of their rapid development. Villages in these areas are under-served in terms of the provision of waste management services. This research focused on an exploratory workshop conducted in one peri-urban village in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India, to raise community awareness regarding the importance of contributing towards effective waste management in their village and the means by which they can do so. The findings of the workshop show its effectiveness in raising the awareness levels of self-help group members. In addition to these findings, causal loop diagrams were drawn to construct effective institutional mechanisms from the perspective of the capacities of the participants and the officials. This study examined the policy initiatives necessary for meeting the sanitation and waste management needs of peri-urban villages. Inferences regarding the institutionalization of linkages between self-help groups and local bodies were made based on the principles of sociocracy. Theoretical insight was provided regarding the different factors affecting this system, and how this model is flexible enough to accommodate the contextual needs of peri-urban villages.

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Housing-Based Urban Planning? Sir Patrick Geddes’ Modern Masterplan for Tel Aviv, 1925

Urban Planning ◽

10.17645/up.v4i3.2182 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 167-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yael Allweil ◽

Noa Zemer

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Urban Housing ◽

Town Planning ◽

Social Utility ◽

Urban Structure ◽

Tel Aviv ◽

Urban Workers ◽

Self Help ◽

New Findings ◽

The City

This article studies Sir Patrick Geddes’ housing-based urban planning, pointing to a less-explored aspect of his groundbreaking work, while proposing ways to rethink the history and theory of modern urban planning towards a “housing builds cities” planning agenda. Focusing on Geddes’ modern urban planning for Tel Aviv in 1925 as housing-based urbanism, this article conceives urban structure and urban housing as one single problem rather than disconnected realms of planning. Based on new findings and revised study of available sources, we look into three planning processes by which policy makers, planners, and dwellers in Tel Aviv engaged in this housing-based urban vision: (1) The city as a housing problem; (2) the city as social utility for reform and reconstruction; and (3) housing-based urbanization as self-help. We show how Geddes’ modern urban plan for Tel Aviv employed the city’s pressing housing needs for urban workers to provoke planning by way of cooperative neighborhoods based on self-help dwellings. This approach was grounded on Geddes’ survey of Tel Aviv’s early premise on housing and extends beyond Geddes’ period to the brutalist housing estates of the 1950s and 1960s. The result is a new historiographic perspective on Tel Aviv’s UNESCO-declared modern urbanism vis-à-vis housing as the cell unit for urban living. Further, insights regarding Tel Aviv’s housing-based planning are relevant beyond this city to other examples of the town planning movement. It proposes rethinking modern urban planning before the consolidation of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) principles, namely when planned settlements were explicitly experimental and involved diverse processes, scales, methods, practices and agents. Housing—a key arena for the modernization of the discipline of architecture, as well as for the consolidation of the discipline of urban planning—is studied here as the intersection of sociopolitical, formal, aesthetic, and structural elements of the city.

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To Stay or to Leave? Migrant Workers' Decisions During Urban Village Redevelopment in Hangzhou, China

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2021.782251 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Xizan Jin ◽

Tianzhou Ren ◽

Nuannuan Mao ◽

Lili Chen

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Affordable Housing ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Large Scale ◽

Housing Quality ◽

Sustainable Operations ◽

Urban Village ◽

The Impact ◽

The City ◽

Urban Villages

As a vital source of the demographic dividend, migrant workers living in urban villages have positively contributed to urban economic development and the improvement of urbanization. Although urban villages have had a great impact on public health due to the shabby environments and poor public safety, the large-scale demolition of the urban villages, the supply of affordable housing for migrant workers has decreased drastically, which may lead to the outflow of many migrant workers and consequently affects the sustainable operations of cities. Therefore, this paper takes Hangzhou as an example to study the impact of urban village redevelopment on migrant workers and their migration decisions during urban village redevelopment process. The finding indicates that migrant workers are significantly impacted by large-scale demolition. (1) The number of affected migrant workers is huge. For example, 657,000 migrant workers who lived in around 178 urban villages are affected in Hangzhou (34,468 households). (2) The increase in rent is obvious. (3) Strong expulsion effect: nearly 1/3 migrant workers will decide to leave the city because of the demolition. Furthermore, our binary logistic regression model suggests that the commuting time, living satisfactory, and the rent affordability are factors significantly affecting migration workers' decision to leave and stay in the city. The housing quality and comfort indicators are not significant. This indicates that convenience for employment and high rent avoidance are the major characteristics of migrant workers' housing choice. Hence, in addition to considering whether the harsh environment is harmful to the public health of urban and residents, the interest and characteristics of migrant workers should be considered during the current urban village demolition process. While simply demolishing urban villages, government needs to provide a relatively sufficient amount of low-cost and affordable housing for migrant workers in case migrant workers leave the city in large numbers due to lack of suitable housing in the city.

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Urban Renewal Design-A Probe into the Reconstruction Mode of Urban Villages in Xi’an

KnE Social Sciences ◽

10.18502/kss.v3i27.5548 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Xiaojie Liu

Keyword(s):

Urban Renewal ◽

Urban Space ◽

Future Development ◽

Urban Village ◽

Living Space ◽

The Future ◽

Reconstruction Mode ◽

The Village ◽

The City ◽

Urban Villages

Theproblemofvillagesinthecityisaproblemleftoverbythehistoryofdifferentstages of urban development.Itislikeapieceof” urban psoriasis”that affects the construction of the future city. How to explore a reasonable urban village reconstruction mode is of great signiﬁcance for the future development of the city. In this paper, based on the investigation and analysis of the existing urban village construction environment in Xi’an, the author proposes the imagination of future living space mode of the village in the city, and explores how to transform the existing construction environment space of thevillageinXi’anCitytoreconstructthenewurbanpubliclivingspace,thus effectively driving the urban regional vitality, reasonably integrating villages in the City into the existing urban space development, and giving the village a new function and vitality.

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Spreading Our Wings

Black Huntington ◽

10.5622/illinois/9780252042591.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 117-146

Author(s):

Cicero M. Fain

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Social Stratification ◽

Jim Crow ◽

Educational Opportunities ◽

The Self ◽

Family Stability ◽

Self Help ◽

Jim Crow Era ◽

Professional Class ◽

The City

This chapter examines Huntington’s growth as a regional urban-industrial hub and black socio-cultural enclave during the early-twentieth century, an era of resurgent white racism nationally. Central to this examination are the responses of second generational Afro-Huntingtonians to the manifestations of strengthening Jim Crow era racism, including what white West Virginian state and municipal authorities euphemistically characterized as “benevolent segregation.” It contends that although social stratification complicated intra-class cooperation, a maturing black professional class within the city and state, linked to the foundation of inter-generational wealth acquisition attendant to family stability, access to broadening educational opportunities, continuing black influx, and embrace of the “Self-Help” philosophy, engaged in a variety of successful actions that advanced African American economic and political progress.

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What to do about depression? Self-help recommendations of the public

International Journal of Social Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/0020764010397262 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 343-349 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Anita Holzinger ◽

Herbert Matschinger ◽

Matthias Angermeyer

Keyword(s):

Help Seeking ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Population Based ◽

Lifestyle Changes ◽

The Self ◽

Treatment Preferences ◽

The Public ◽

Self Help ◽

The Family ◽

The City

Background: While help-seeking and treatment preferences for depression have been assessed in a number of population studies, little is known about the public’s self-help beliefs. Aims: To explore public beliefs about self-help actions to be taken in case of depression. Methods: In spring 2009, a population-based survey was conducted by telephone in the city of Vienna. A fully structured interview was carried out, which began with the presentation of a vignette describing a case of depression. Subsequently, respondents were asked to indicate to what extent they would recommend various self-help actions. Results: Among the self-help options proposed, confiding in a close friend or someone in the family were most frequently recommended. Apart from that, a variety of interpersonal actions (socializing with others, joining a self-help group), psychological methods (thinking positively), lifestyle changes (engaging in sport, listening to music, going on vacation, reading a good book) and dietary methods (eating healthy food) were endorsed by over half of respondents. While women were more ready to recommend self-help actions, the better educated were less enthusiastic about them. Conclusions: As only some of the self-help measures endorsed by the public are evidence based, more research is needed before promulgating their use.

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