Neighbourhood space for formal housing based on social cohesion in Jember Region

Abstract

Nowadays “community without closeness” does exist and makes the closeness to space is no longer important for social relations such as in formal housing in Jember Region. The housing area in Jember Region divided into two types, such as high density housing and low density housing which are influenced by their type of house. Qualitative analysis method that is used in this research are synchronic reading and typology. Synchronic analysis technique based on maps, observation, and interview to several source and used in this research to describe settlement pattern. In the fact, the community who live in formal housing prefer to spend their time in home without paying attention the socialization with their neighbourhood and using public open spaces. It makes segregation and weaken the social cohesion. Therefore, this research is needed to provide a social model of environmental space based on social interaction patterns and location points of interaction in low and high density formal housing in Jember region. Based on the result, it is known that the developer need to designing enclave on formal housing road spaces that are used for social interaction and control each other in housing security, according to the concept of defensible space and neighbourhood space model namely “Enclave Transpatial”