H. Winarso Access to Main Roads Or Low Cost Land? Residential Land Developers Behaviour in Indonesia
H. Winarso Access to main roads or low cost land? Residential land developers behaviour in Indonesia In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, On the roadThe social impact of new roads in Southeast Asia 158 (2002), no: 4, Leiden, 653-676 This PDF-file was downloaded from http://www.kitlv-journals.nl Downloaded from Brill.com10/04/2021 02:29:57AM via free access HARYO WINARSO Access to main roads or low cost land? Residential land developers' behaviour in Indonesia The rapid growth of the urban population in the Third World has obvious implications not only for the provision of basic infrastructure but also for land development. It has been reported that in 1990, around 42 per cent of the Third World's total urban population was living in informal settlements, many of them located on urban fringes (World Resource Institute, quoted by Browder, Bohland, and Scarpaci 1995). But many urban residents also live in settlements on urban fringes created by land developers. This is particularly visible in cities of countries that have enjoyed massive economie growth, such as Bangkok (Foo 1992a, 1992b; Dowall 1991). In Jabotabek,1 the private sector has urbanized 16,600 hectares of rural land far away from the built-up area of Jakarta, selling around 25,000 hous- ing units annually. This was achieved by private developers in the Jabotabek area, an emerging mega-urban region in Indonesia, between the 1970s and the 1990s (Winarso 1999; Winarso and Kombaitan 1995). In the Jabotabek area, land developments, particularly those for residential use, have pen- etrated far into rural areas, creating urban sprawl (Henderson, Kuncoro, and Nasution 1996; Firman and Dharmapatni 1994; Firman 1994; Noe 1991; Winarso and Kombaitan 1995).
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