Gentrifying the peri-urban: Land use conflicts and institutional dynamics at the frontier of an Indonesian metropolis. (February 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hudalah, Delik; Winarso, Haryo; Woltjer, Johan
• Other Names: Shin Hyun Bang guest-editor.; Lees Loretta guest-editor.; López-Morales Ernesto guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Urban studies. Volume 53:Number 3(2016:Feb.)
• Page Start: 593
• Page End: 608
• Publication Date: 2016-02
• Subjects: Indonesia -- institutional gap -- land use conflict -- peri-urban gentrification; Cities and towns -- Periodicals; City planning -- Periodicals; 307.1216
• DOI: 10.1177/0042098014557208
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0042-0980

Abstract

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.