Green Housing Evaluation Through Carbon Footprint Dynamic Model: Questioned the Urban Policy Sustainability

Abstract

Tangerang local government's housing policy states that settlement area has to be rejuvenated through the ‘green housing’ development. This study suggest that urban planning policy has to consider about carbon footprint as one of sustainability indicator. Many studies reviewed from socio-economic issues to figure whether the policy is sustainable whilst there is lack of consideration about carbon footprint per-capita emitted. Employing carbon metric, GIS and system dynamic methods, carbon footprint per-capita was estimated based on the implementation of green housing development. This study was focus on whole life cycle of building: construction phase, operational phase and demolition phase. Demolition would be conducted to settlement area which is not suitable with RTRW (urban land use planning). The result show that in the early year of policy implementation, there would be an increasing number of carbon footprint per capita due to the demolition and construction phases. However, in the long term carbon footprint per capita would be less cause by implementation of green housing.