Kampung Pelangi Research Articles

The Role and Potential of Art for New City Landmark: Case of Kampung Pelangi, Semarang, Indonesia

Over the last few years, revitalization through painting in the slum area become popular in some cities in Indonesia. The attractive colors and illustrations have escalated the village on social media, especially for youth. The study focuses on investigating the roles of art in Kampung Pelangi potential for city landmark. Interviews and observations were done as a preliminary study, and survey online intended to understand the university students’ perception as a youth representative. The results have investigated that despite art has brought the dominant visual in the landscape, the unity with the existing landmark is needed to bring harmony to enhance the current image of the city.Keywords: New urbanism; landmark; the role of art; student’s perceptioneISSN: 2398-4287 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v3i9.1541

RealizingKampungPelangi as a Sustainable Village City Using Asian New Urbanism: Ideological Approach

Sustainable development is defined as fulfillment of the current needs without sacrificing the needs of future generations. This concept has long become the concern of experts until a goal of world development called Sustainable Development Goals/SDGs is born. Sustainable development have three pillars, namely economic, social and environment that integrated to achieve the method related to the condition of Kampung Pelangi. The analysis was using Doxiadis theory is reviewed by the Asian New Urbanism: Ideological Approach which is consisting of five planning instruments: Self Suffiency, Land as Resource, Shifting and Floating Values, Transport and Mobility, Conservation of Environmental. In the end there are several new program was initiated such as the implementation vertical garden using orchid, made the roadmap application to facilitate the tourist and increase community cooperation to improve the social economic life. The results of this research with the concept of Kampung Pelangi will be able to develop new programs based on sustainable development.