Gentrifying the peri-urban: Land use

conflicts and institutional dynamics at

the frontier of an Indonesian Through a case study of
metropolis Environmental revitalization
project in peri urban areas of
Delik Hudalah Bandung city in Indonesia,
Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia the research throws light into
Delik HUDALAHis associate professor of urban and
the gentrification issues that
regional planning at the School of Architecture, Planning exist in rural urban
and Policy Development (SAPPD) and senior research transitional zones in
fellow at the Research Center for Infrastructure and developing non-Western
Regional Development, Bandung Institute of Technology, countries and locate
Indonesia.
gentrification in the context
Haryo Winarso of peri urbanizing Asian
Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia metropolis.

JohanWoltjer
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
The focus is on the political
Johan Woltjer is a Professor of Urban Infrastructures, process, tactics and
University of Westminster, UK, and Head of Department strategies supporting and
at the Department of Planning and Transport.He also is opposing this gentrification.
an Honorary Professor at the University of Groningen and
a Visiting Professor at the University of Reading. He was
previously at the University of Groningen (2006-2014),
the University of Amsterdam (2002-2006) and the
 Environmental revitalization project in Punclut ,North Bandung
Indonesia

( Source: Gentrifying the peri-urban: Land use conflicts and institutional dynamics at the frontier of an Indones
A scattered kampong in Punclut. ( Source: Gentrifying the A garden house under construction ( Source: Gentrifying
peri-urban: Land use conflicts and institutional dynamics at the the peri-urban: Land use conflicts and institutional dynamics at the
frontier of an Indonesian metropolis) frontier of an Indonesian metropolis)

2 interrelated urban developments concepts of the projects

Land consolidation and tilting to provide existing marginalized villagers

the legal basis to continue cultivating the land they occupied.

Tourism development in order to combine agri-tourism and ecological

functions with residential developments.
The study clearly depicts that the

Peri urban gentrification is a struggle for no mans land with its

proponents seeking maximum flexibility of rules and absence of
controlling institutions.

Results in loss of local and regional communities legal access to

the functional role of peri urban areas.

Use of original population of the area as a short term political tool

to achieve the objectives of the proponents.

The social and political conflicts associated is no longer

neighborhood level but affects local and regional levels.

The movement of capital and spatial reorganization and of social

classes gets affected largely by local, regional and national
institutional specificities or institutional gaps.

Thus gentrification in peri urban areas of this nature need to

be narrated in terms of emergence of a cross class coalition.