Gentrifying the peri-urban: Land use conflicts and institutional dynamics at the frontier of an Indonesian metropolis

This paper aims to specify the meaning of gentrification in rapidly peri-urbanising metropolitan regions in the context of Indonesia’s rapid transition to decentralisation and democracy. It discusses a case study of conflict over an environmental revitalisation project in a peri-urban area of Bandun...

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Published in:Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) Scotland), 2016-02, Vol.53 (3), p.593-608
Main Authors: Hudalah, Delik, Winarso, Haryo, Woltjer, Johan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bandung Indonesia
Capital movement
Class
Coalitions
Conflict
Decentralization
Democracy
Democratization
Gentrification
Land use
Metropolitan areas
Neighborhoods
Neighbourhoods
Political development
Political systems
Politics
Social classes
Spatial discrimination
Tactics
Urban areas
Urban regeneration
Urban renewal
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Summary:This paper aims to specify the meaning of gentrification in rapidly peri-urbanising metropolitan regions in the context of Indonesia’s rapid transition to decentralisation and democracy. It discusses a case study of conflict over an environmental revitalisation project in a peri-urban area of Bandung City. The analysis focuses on the political processes, tactics and strategies supporting and opposing peri-urban gentrification and their consequences. The analysis illustrates how these political dynamics mediate the interaction between the movement of capital and the spatial reorganisation of social classes. It is argued that in the context of a peri-urbanising metropolis, gentrification needs to be narrated less in terms of class-based neighbourhood succession and more in terms of competing cross-class coalitions emerging at local and regional levels.
ISSN:0042-0980
1360-063X
DOI:10.1177/0042098014557208