Housing-Estate.com, Jakarta – October 31 is World Cities Day established by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). This warning is brought to increase the international community’s attention on global urbanization, encourage cooperation among countries, address the challenges of urbanization, and support sustainable urban development.
This year the theme of the commemoration of World Cities namely Inclusive Cities, Shared Development or Gotong the Mutual Building Cities for All. Urbanization itself is a global process and in Indonesia has started a massive occurred since 1976 with the total urban population when it reached 37.9 percent, up 45.1 percent in 1996, and this year has reached 54.5 percent.
According to the Minister of Public Works and Public Housing (Menpupera) Basuki Hadimuljono, urbanization will continue because people go to the town or village that grew into the city. “Therefore, it should be directed and moreover we must still carry a distinguishing trait city or town character,” he said during the City Day celebrations World in Jakarta, Monday (31/10).
Cities in Indonesia itself has enormous challenges related to poverty, social problems, crime, shortage of financial resources for development, uncontrolled spatial and land-use change, pengelolaann resources are not optimal, and various problems other.
development the town itself is not homogeneous but must follow the character as well as strong local roots. Basuki close watch on the development of shophouses were homogeneous in some cities such as Padang, which eliminates the typical building Bagonjong, North Sumatra with a custom home Gorja, or Yogyakarta Joglonya.
“Cities should have a distinct identity, do not homogeneous and is dominated shop , Here it should be also a great role in academia to participate in formulating the basis for development of inclusive city and this became the basis for us to the development of the city. Likewise, the role of the community is very important, “he added.
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