Characteristic of Urban Tissue Pattern of Inner City and Coastal City in Indonesia (Case Study: Depok District, Yogyakarta and Genuk District, Semarang)

Abstract

In the realm of urban planning and design practice, understanding urban morphology can be the basis for the physical development of the built environment that is adaptive and transformative to the uncertain and rapid changes in urban areas. This study aims to identify the physical form that is expected to represent the character of the development of Indonesia’s urban areas in Yogyakarta as the ‘Inner City’ and Semarang as a ‘Coastal City’. The research used an NDBI map within two different timescales to identify the figure and ground of both case studies to generalize the urban tissue pattern. The initial results show that the two districts have a similar tendency to develop heterogeneously and dispersed with the predominant configuration of figures arranged through field blocks and open system urban fabric. However, the two districts also have differences that represent the physical characteristics of the inner city in the form of a low-density continuous development pattern and a coastal city in the form of a linear development pattern. The characters show the process of shifting from closed urban fabric to open-fragmented peri-urban fabric.