Urban Studies Reading List

Urban Studies Reading List

Books

Abeyasekere, S.  1987. Jakarta: A History. Oxford University Press.

Cribb, R. 2000. Historical Atlas of Indonesia. University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu.

David, M. 2006. Planet of Slums. Verso.

Helmond, A., S. Michiels. 2007. Jakarta Megalopolis: Horizontal and Vertical Observations. Valiz. Amsterdam.

Hubbard, P. 2006.  The City (Key Ideas in Geography). Routledge. London and New York.

King, A.D. 1991. Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-Economy: Cultural and Spatial Foundations of the World Urban System. Routledge. London and New York.

Koch, C.J.  1995. The Year of Living Dangerously. Penguin Books, 3rd Ed.

Merrifield, Andy. 2002. Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City, Routledge. New York.

Nas, P.J.M. 1993. Urban Symbolism, Studies in Human Society, Vol 8. Brill Academic Publishers.

Nas, P.J.M., G. Persoon, R. Jaffe. 2003. Framing Indonesian Realities: Essays in symbolic anthropology in honour of Reimar Scheford. KITLV Press. Leiden.

Pacione, M. 2001. Urban Geography: a global perspective. Routledge. London and New York.

Pramoedya, A. T. 2000. Tales from Djakarta: caricatures of circumstances and their human being. Equinox. Jakarta.

Silver, Christopher. 2008. Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. New York.

Journal Articles

Note: The journal articles here are a small sample of the hundreds of scholarly articles written about Jakarta, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia in a given year. This list presents examples of the type of articles that I have a particular interest in.  There is no standard citation style presented here but the publication information is presented and you can refer the article if further information in needed to complete a citation. The published article appears after the citation as a linked .pdf file and is highlighted in blue. To see the file you need to use Adobe Reader. If you do not have it installed you can get it here: Adobe Reader. I also highly recommend the Open Office Suite.  It’s all free.

I would also like to note that Cornell University has made available its on-line journal Indonesia. All journal articles there are available in the .pdf format.

Abidan Hasanuddin Z., H. Andreas, Rochman Djaja, Dudy Darmawan, M. Gamal. 2006. Land subsidence characteristics of Jakarta between 1997 and 2005, as estimated using GPS surveys.Received: 13 August 2006 / Accepted: 26 February 2007 / Published online: 17 March 2007. Springer-Verlag 2007. land-subsidence-characteristics-of-jakarta

Bebbington, A., L. Dharmawan, E. Fahmi, S. Guggenheim. 2004. Village Politics, Culture, and Community Driven Development: insights from Indonesia. Progress in Development Studies 4,3 (2004), pp. 187-205. Village-politics-culture

Bird, J. 1998.  Indonesia in 1997: The Tinderbox Year. Asian Survey, Vol. 38, No. 2, A Survey in Asia in 1997: Part II (Feb., 1998), pp. 168-179. indonesia-97-tinder-box-year-bird

Bird, J. 1999. Indonesia in 1998: The Pot Boils Over. Asian Survey, Vol. 39, No. 1, A Survey in Asia 1998 (Jan.-Feb., 1999), pp. 27-37 indonesia-98-pot-boils-over-bird

Bubandt, Nils. “Rumors, Pamphlets, and the Politics of Paranoia in Indonesia.” The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 67, No. 3 (2008): 789-817. bubandt_rumors_pamphlets_paranoia_2008

Burbandt, Nils. Sorcery, “Corruption, and the Dangers of Democracy in Indonesia.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 12 (2006): 413-443. bubandt_sorcery_democracy_2006

Burke, Roland. 2006. “The Compelling Dialogue of Freedom”: Human Rights at the Bandung Conference. Human Rights Quarterly 28 (2006) 947-965 © 2006 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. bandung_burke

Chang, T.C. 2005. Place, Memory, and Identity: Imagining “New Asia“. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol. 46, No. 3, December 2005, pp. 246-253. place-memory-and-idenity-new-asia

Cobban, J.L. 1985. The Ephemeral Historic District in Jakarta. Geographical Review, Vol. 75, No. 3 (Jul., 1985), pp.300-318. historical-district-jakarta-cobban

Cybriwsky, R., L. Ford. 2001. City Profile: Jakarta. Cities, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 199-201. jakarta-city-profile-cybrwisky

Dittmer, L. 2002. East Asia in the “New Era” in World Politics. World Politics (Oct. 2002), pp. 38-65. east-asia-in-the-new-era-dittmer

Emmerson, D.K. 2004. Indonesia’s Approaching Elections: A Year of Voting Dangerously. Journal of Democracy, Vol. 15, No. 1, January 2004. year-of-voting-dangerously-emmerson

Evers, H. 2005. The End of Urban Involution and the Cultural Construction of Urbanism in Indonesia. Asian Horizons: Cities, States, Societies, Singapore 1-3 August. cultural-construction-indonesia

Ford, L. 1993. A model of Indonesian City Structure. Geographical Review, Vol. 83,  No.4. (Oct., 1993), pp. 374-396. a-model-of-indonesian-city-structure

Firman, T. 1998. The Restructuring of Jakarta Metropolitan Area” A “global city: in Asia. Cities, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 229-243. the-restructuring-of-jakarta

Firman, T. 1999. Indonesian cities under the “Krismon”: A great “urban crisis” in Southeast   Asia, , Cities, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 69-82. indonesian-cities-under-kris-mon

Goldblum, C., T. Wong. 2000. Growth, crisis and spatial change: a study of haphazard urbanization in Jakarta, Indonesia, Land Use Policy, Vol. 17, pp. 29-37. growth-crisis-and-spatial-change-jakarta

Han, S.S., A. Basuki. 2001. The Spatial Patterns of Land Values in Jakarta. Urban Studies, Vol. 30, No. 10, pp. 1841-1847. spatial-pattern-of-land-values-jakarta-han

Harootunian, H. D. 1999. Ghostly Comparison: Anderson’s Telescope. diacritics 29.4: 135-49 diacritics / winter 1999. ghostly-comparisons_harootunian_diacritics_1999

Jones, R., B. Shaw. 2006. Palimpsests of Progress: Erasing thee Past and Rewriting the Future in Developing Societies- Case Studies in Singapore and Jakarta. International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, March 2006, pp. 122-138. singapore-and-jakarta

Kooy, Michelle, Karen Bakker. 2008. Technologies of Government: Constituting Subjectivities, Spaces, and Infrastructuresin Colonial and Contemporary Jakarta. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Volume 32.2 June 2008 375-91 technologies-of-government-constituting

Lee, Doreen. 2007. Taking the Streets: Activism and Memory Work in Jakarta. Indonesian Studies Working Papers, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, September, 2007. lee_activism_jakarta_no3_sep07

Leggett, William H., 2005. Terror and the Colonial Imagination at Work in the Transnational Corporate Spaces of Jakarta, Indonesia. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 12:271-302 Copyright © 2005 Taylor & Francis Inc. ISSN: 1070-289X print / 1547-3384 online DOI: 10.1080/10702890590950618 corporate-spaces-of-jakarta_indonesia

Locher-Schlten, Elsbeth. 2003. MORALS, HARMONY, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: “Companionate Feminism” in Colonial Indonesia in the 1930s. © 2003 INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, VOL. 14 NO. 4 (WINTER) morals_harmony_national_identity

Malley, M.S. 2002.  Indonesia in 2001: Restoring Stability in Jakarta. Asian Survey, Vol. 42, No. 1, A Survey of Asian in 2001 (Jan-Feb., 2002), pp. 124-132 indonesia-01-stability-malley

Marrouchi, Mustapha. 2003. Introduction: Colonialism, Islamism, Terrorism. College Literature 30.1 (Winter 2003) colonialisn_islam_terrorism_marrouchi

Marshall, J. 2005. Mega City, Mega Mess. Nature, Vol. 437, September 2005, pp. 312-314. mega-city-mega-mess-marshall

McGee, T. 2002. Jalan, jalan; invading, destroying, and reconstructing the Southeast Asian City.In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde, On the Road: The Social Impact of New Roads in Southeast Asia, 158 (2002) No. 1, Leiden, pp. 637-652. jalan-jalan-roads_mcgee

Miksic, John N. (see: www.anthrosource.net). Urbanization, and Disease in Ancient Indonesia. Water9. National University of Singapore. AS Anthrosource.  water_urbanization_disease_ancient_indonesia

Murakami, A., A.M. Zain, K. Takeuchi, A. Tsunekawa, S. Yokota. 2005. Trends in urbanization and patterns of land use in the Asian mega cities Jakarta, Bangkok, and Metro Manila. Landscape and Urban Planning, 70 (2005), pp. 251-259. trends-in-urbanization-murakami

Nas, P.J.M. 1995. The Image of Denpasar: About Urbanism between Tradition and Tourism. Univeristy of Leiden. Leiden. the-image-of-denpasar1

Nas. P.J. M., Pratiwo. 2001. The Streets of Jakarta: fear, trust, and amnesia in urban development. University of Leiden. Leiden. streets-of-jakarta-nas

Nas, P.J.M. 2002. A Task Ahead. Anthropologist, Special Issue No. 1, pp. 249-252.Ooi, G.L., K.H. Phua. 2007. Urbanization and Slum Formation. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. 84, No. 1, pp. i27-i34. a-task-ahead-nas

Ning, Purnomohadi. ( see: City Case Study) Jakarta: Urban Agriculture as an Alternative Strategy to Face the Economic Crisis. CITY CASE STUDY JAKARTA 453 jakarta-urban-farming

Ooi, G.L., K.H. Phua. Urbanization and Slum Development. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. 84, No. 1, doi:10.1007/s11524-007-9167-5 urbanization-and-slum-formation-ooi

Rodgers, Susan. 2003. Folklore with a Vengeance: A Sumatran Literature of Resistance in the Colonial Indies and New Order Indonesia. Journal of American Folklore 116(460):129-158 Copyright © 2003 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois folklore_with_a_vengence_sumatra

Sihombing, A. 2005. The Transformation of Kampungkota: Symbiosys Between Kampung and Kota: A Case Study from Jakarta.  Department of Architecture. University of Indonesia. Jakarta. transformation-of-kampungkota-sihombing

Silvey, R. 2003. Spaces of Protest: gendered migration, social networks, and labor activism in West Java, Indonesia. Political Geography, 22 (2003). Pp. 129 -155. spaces-of-protest-silvey

Sparke, M., J. Sidaway, T. Bunnell. 2004. Triangulating the borderless world: geographies of power in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle. Royal Geographic Society. ISSN 0020-2745. pp.485-498. triangulating-borders

Tagliacozzo, Eric. 2005. The Lit Archipelago Coast Lighting and the Imperial Optic in Insular Southeast Asia, 1860-1910. Technology and Culture, Vol. 46, April, 2005. coastal-ligting-tagliacozzo

Vink, Markus. 2003. “The World’s Oldest Trade”: Dutch Slavery and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the Seventeenth Century. Journal of World History, Vol. 14, No. 2 ©2003 by University of Hawai‘i Press dutch_slave_trade_17th_century

Wanandi, J. 2002.  Indonesia: A Failed State?. The Washington Quarterly , 25:3,pp.135-146. indonesia-a-failed-state-wanandi

Wessing, Robert. 1995. The Last Tiger in East Java: Symbolic Continuity in Ecological Change. Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 54, No. 2. (1995), pp. 191-218. the-last-tiger-in-east-java-wessing

Winarso, H. 2005. City for the Rich. 8th Conference of Asian Planning Schools Association, 11-14th September. city-for-the-rich-winarso

Wusno, K. 2004. Whither Nationalist Urbanism? Public Life in Governor Sutiyoso’s Jakarta. Urban Studies, Vol. 41, No. 12, November 2004, pp. 2377-2394  nationalist-urbanism-wusno

 

 

Sustainable Urban Growth Issues

Atkinson, Adrian.  Are Third World Megacities Sustainable? JABOTABEK as an example.  Journal of International Development Vol. 5, No. 6 (1993): 605-622 atkinson_sustainable_jabotabek

Bakker, Karen,  Conflicts Over Water Supply in Jakarta Indonesia.  In: Water Conflicts: An analysis of the origins and nature of water-related unrest and conflicts in the urban context. International Hydrological Programme UNESCO sc-2006/ws/19 (2006): 113-138 bakker_water_jakarta1

Douglass, Mike.  Globalization, Mega-Projects and the Environment: Urban Form and Water in  Jakarta. International Dialogic Conference on Global Cities: Water, Infrastructure and Environment. The UCLA Globalization Research Center – Africa. 16-19 May 2005. douglass_globalization_water_jakarta

Drakakis-Smith, David.  Third World Cities: Sustainable Urban Development , 1. Urban Studies, Vol. 32, Nos 4-5, 1995. 659-677. drakakis_smith_third-world-cities_1995

Firman, Tommy.  Land Conversion and Urban Development in the Northern Region of West Java Indonesia. Urban Studies. Vol. 34, No. 7 (1997): 1027-1046. firman_land-conversion-w-java_1997

Heinke, Gary. W. The Challenge of Urban Growth and Sustainable Development for Asian Cities in the 21st Century. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 44: 155-171, 1997. heinke_urban-growth-asian-cities

Newman, Peter W.G. Sustainability and Cities: extending the metabolism model. Landscape and Urban Planning 44 (1999) 219-226. newman_sustainability_cities_1999

Marcotullio, Peter J. Asian urban sustainability in the era of globalization. Habitat International 25 (2001) 577-598. marcotullio_asia-urban-sustainility_2001

Martine, George. 2007. Ed. Alex Marshall.  State of the World Population: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). New York. 2007. unfpa_2007_eng

Nas, P.J.M., M. Veenma.  1996. Towards Sustainable Cities: Urban Community and Environment in the Third World. University of Leiden. Leiden. nas-veenma-substainable-cities

Rees, William E.  Consuming the Earth: the biophysics of sustainability. Ecological Economics 29 (1999) 23-27. rees_consuming-the-earth_1998

Rees, William E.  Urban ecosystems: the human dimension. Urban Ecosystems. 1 (1997): 63-75 rees_urban-ecosystem_1997

Server, O.B.  Corruption: a major problem for urban management, Some evidence from Indonesia. Habitat International Vol. 1 (1996): 23-41. server_corruption_urban_management_1996

Smit, Jac, and Joe Nasr.  Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities: Using wastes and  idle land and water bodies as resources. Environment and Urbanization (1992): 141-152 smit_nasr_urban-agriculture

Soemarwoto, Otto and G.R. Conway.  The Javanese Homegarden. [Professor, Institute of Geology, Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia, and Professor, Centre for Environmental Technology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.] the_javanese_homegarden2

Steinberg, Florian.  Jakarta: Environmental problems and sustainability. Habitat International 31 (2007): 354-365. steinberg_jakarta_environment_2007

Yulinawati, Hernani.  Jakarta Mega Urban Region: How Livable is its Environment. 8th International Conference of the Asian Planning Schools Association. 11-14 Sept. 2005. yulinawati_jakarta_2005