Transformation of metropolitan suburban area (a study on new town development in Moncongloe-Pattalassang Metropolitan Maminasata)

Abstract

This study aimsat examining and analyzing the transformation of new town development in spatial perspective of a metropolitan city. The complexity of the new town development causes morphological diversity and progresses toward the integration of urban system of Maminasata Metropolitan. This research was a case study using a qualitative and quantitative approach. The data was obtained through observations, surveys, and documentation. The results of the study showed that the physical transformation in the new town developmentcharacterized by the presence of social, economic functions and the support of road network construction caused increasing flow distribution of goods and services, labor migration and social mobility vertically and horizontally as well. Increasing urban activity ran parallel with the position of developing new town as the economic growth pole.Newtown development spatially becomes the driving force of change in social structure, social mobility and changes in cultural patterns of the local community. Different ability in the adaptation process of function of evolving space, and imbalance in the control of reproduction of space in a new town provides impacts on marginalization and poverty in the urban local communities.