Urban productivity and affordable rental housing supply in Australian cities and regions

This study examined relationships between urban productivity and affordable rental housing, focusing particularly on the location and availability of affordable rental housing relative to employment and labour markets in Australia’s capital cities and satellite cities.

Mobility Perspective in Anthropology of Policy: Case Studies Urban Policy in Indonesia

This article explores anthropological perspectives in public policy by using the central concept of policy mobility. Through this concept, we will show how policy resulting from the accumulation of knowledge, strength, and geographical imagination moves from one territory to another. The emphasis on forming policy ideas is different from policy studies from another perspective that looks at governance to shape the behavior of the people. We take the case of forming creative city ideas in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan to show mutation and hybridization of policies. We use ethnographic methods to collect data, supplemented by literature reviews on creative city policies. For decades, Balikpapan has been known as an extractive industrial city, especially in the mining and forestry sectors. Due to pressure from national and global environmentalists, exploration of natural resources must be limited, reducing urban productivity. Policymakers see the creative city as an opportunity to improve the city's economic life while maintaining the sustainability of the local natural and cultural environment.

Self-building in contested spaces: livelihoods and productivity challenges of the urban poor in Africa

The growth of informal settlements and lagging behind of economic productivity growth is indicative of the huge challenges of urban governance to address poverty and inequality. Based on a case study on urban food producer groups in the informal settlements of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, this chapter observes a shrinking of development spaces for the urban poor. Therefore, it argues for a more comprehensive approach to self-building by the urban poor to sustain their livelihoods in Africa’s cities and provide input into the sustenance of urban productivity. Instead of investing urban resources into economic activities that exclude and marginalize the poor, an inclusive approach would be more recognizant of their livelihoods. Strategic urban governance would address the plurality of actors, including the poor, and their livelihood potential and contributions to urban productivity and liveable cities.

Explaining the urban premium in Chinese cities and the role of place-based policies

This paper relies on the empirical framework introduced in Combes et al. (2012) to address the following main questions: (a) what are the relative contributions of agglomeration and selection forces expected to drive the urban productivity premium previously observed in Chinese cities, and (b) to what extent does the industrial parks and zones (IPZs) program, a popular place-based policy, simultaneously influence selection and agglomeration mechanisms? The main findings are as follows. First, both agglomeration and selection forces are observed in larger, denser Chinese cities, indicating that earlier studies that failed to take into account selection likely overestimate the effect of agglomeration economies. Second, after taking into account non-random site selection based on matching, the IPZs program intensifies both agglomeration and selection forces, although the results depend strongly on who administers the program. The empirical findings highlight a theoretical connection between state intervention and explaining the observed urban premium in a transitioning economy context.

MUSIUM INTERAKTIF SENI DAN DESAIN

Point of view for looking artworks is not passsive anymore. Techonolgy development changed the museum paradigm. Those contemporaneity give huge impact for designing museum. The biggest critic of the museum well known about historical which contain educative value in it, currently that’s changing are passive to active, closeness to openess. Pattern of human interaction consubstantiate one each other, that’s added with nature reformation which has been invented a artwork. Art is not just about visualization, it is about a point of view which reflects among human, object, and nature. Museum of interactive art and design reveals about a meaning of interaction, this museum is going to locate in urban which have a high density and high urbanization. Community is formed from similarities and differences perception about places. Interaction approach will be able to deliver a content of human perseptiveness. “Five Senses of Human” as tools in this museum. These tools will be lead the visitor to have awareness about artworks (that contain five senses of human”. Design equips with a lot of nature experiences, it is will be able to dissociate urban complexity and the design will be able to contemplate citizens from rushed activities. The design contain functions to boost urban productivity and provide positive environment to be 24-hours city. Museum of Interactive art and design presents sustainable environment, to provide the citizens to have awareness about nature and support productivity as a needs in the future. Abstrak Perilaku manusia melihat karya seni bukanlah menjadi hal yang pasif. Perkembangan teknologi mengubah paradigma sebuah objek (karya seni) dalam museum. Kesejamanan tersebut memberikan dampak yang besar di dalam desain perancangan museum. Museum yang kita kenal sebagai bangunan yang penuh dengan nilai historikal dengan nilai edukatif didalamnya menjadi berubah, yang bersifat pasif menjadi aktif, yang tertutup menjadi terbuka. Pola interaksi manusia dan objek melebur satu sama lain ditambah dengan sebuah reformasi alam yang menjadi representasi dari terciptanya sebuah karya seni. Seni bukanlah soal karya yang terlihat, tetapi seni adalah sebuah pandangan yang tercermin antara manusia, obyek dan alam. Museum Interaktif seni dan desain bercerita tentang sebuah makna interaksi, desain ini terletak di konteks perkotaan yang sangat padat. Komunitas yang tercipta karna adanya sebuah kesamaan maupun perbedaan persepsi dengan pengalaman sebuah ruang. Pendekatan akan interaksi tersebut melahirkan sebuah konten yang mengarah kepada kepekaan manusia akan pancaindra. “Lima Pancaindra Manusia” menjadi sebuah alat dari museum interaktif seni dan desain ini. Konten yang akan menggiring pengunjung untuk lebih peka terhadap karya seni yang sangat erat dengan pancaindra. Desain perancangan dilengkapi dengan pengalaman-pengalaman akan representasi alam, menghilangkan sebuah kepenatan dari hiruk pikuk kota dan menjadi tempat untuk manusia berkontemplasi dari kesibukan perkotaan. Desain dilengkapi dengan fungsi yang menunjang produktifitas kota dan menghadirkan lingkungan yang positif untuk menjadikan kota yang hidup selama 24 jam. Museum interaktif seni dan desain hadir untuk lingkungan yang berkelanjutan, mewadahi masyarakatnya untuk semakin peka akan sebuah lingkungan dan menunjang produktifitas yang menjadi sebuah kebutuhan di masa yang akan datang.

Agglomeration economies and urban productivity

This study explores the relationship between agglomeration economies and industrial productivity between 1980 and 2010 in Ecuador. The measure of productivity used is labour productivity. We conclude that urbanization economies have a positive impact on productivity in the period analyzed.

64 PEMETAAN PENGEMBANGAN KAWASAN RUNGKUT INDUSTRI SURABAYA (SIER) BERBASIS ANDROID

Sektor industri di Kecamatan Rungkut, merupakan salah satu sektor yang penting dan strategis dalampembangunan sebagai urat nadi perekonomian Kota Surabaya. Pembangunan sektor industri untukmenggerakkan berbagai potensi wilayah, meningkatkan aksesibilitas dan mobilitas masyarakat, sertameningkatkan produktivitas kawasan perkotaan. Parameter untuk menentukan penggunaan lahan industriyaitu : ketersediaan tenaga kerja, karakteristik fisik (jenis tanah, kemiringan tanah, dan daerah rawanerosi), ketersediaan sarana dan prasarana, aksesibilitas, dan kebijakan pemerintah untuk penentuan lokasikawasan industri. Penelitian ini bertujuan membangun sistem pemetaan kawasan Rungkut industri berbasisandroid dan menggunakan pendekatan Sistem Informasi Geografis (SIG) dengan metode overlay dan buffer.Data diperoleh dari pengukuran ground truth (kenyataan yang ada di lapangan) penentuan lokasi industriyaitu peta dan data-data posisi yaitu koordinat.The industrial Rungkut district, sector is one of the most important sectors and strategies in development asthe lifeblood of the economy. The development of this sector was aimed at mobilizing regional potentials,increasing accessibility and mobility of the community, and increasing urban productivity. Parameter fordetermining industrial land use physical characteristics (soil type, slope of soil, and erosion prone areas),availability of facilities and infrastructure, accessibility, and government policies for determining thelocation of industrial estate Rungkut. This research to build a mapping system based on android usedGeographic Information System (GIS) approach with the overlay and buffer methods. The data wereobtained from ground truth measurements of industrial location determination maps and position data thatis coordinate.