Residential Land Use Change and Territorial Conflict

Abstract

This paper discusses the process of land use change and its consequential territorial conflict. Such change often occurs in residential areas with a high land value, adequate public facilities, an access to the city center, and the landowner’s desire to open a business of his own, as well as the leeway in regulations that allows for land use change. This research focuses on the social impacts of land use change such as comfort disturbances, territorial disturbances, and social disturbances. This research used observation and interview methods on a street in the Bintaro Jaya residential complex. We observed the residents’ behavior, activities, and circulation that occurred and after that, we conducted in-depth interviews with the residents to understand the perception on their territory and the developer. We found that there was a territorial clash between the residential and the commercial space such as parking area issues, visual and audio disturbances which had a negative impact on the residents. We concluded that the main road is not effective to be used for a residential space due to the potential to be developed into commercial space in the future.