The Distribution Pattern Analysis of Housing in Medan Using The Nearest Neighbor Analysis Approach

Abstract

The high number of population in a city has affected in an increasing need for housing and settlement. Medan faces the same problem. Population in Medan keeps increasing rapidly, which makes the demands of housing and settlement increase as well. Fulfilling the need of housing can result in the increasing level of transformation. It creates new points which have not been anticipated in a layout by government policy. The objective of this research is to analyze the housing distribution patterns in Medan. This research used the descriptive-quantitative method. The selected subject of this research was formal housing structured by country or developer was bought and sold with minimum large 15.000 m2. The identified and validated housings were be analyzed by using the nearest neighbor analysis. The drawing and the measurement of housing distances were taken by using an image map through the Google Earth Application and Geographic Information System. The spread housing pattern in Medan was the clustered-random. It isn’t profitable for infrastructure, and public facility of the city. The recommendation is addressed to the government, expected to be able to direct construction of settlement with cluster pattern and increasing accessibility, public facility, and quality of infrastructure.