CITY MANAGEMENT INNOVATION (IMP Award (2008))

City Management Innovation (Inovasi Manajemen Perkotaan Award)

IMP award is an appreciation for local government who succeeded in developing and managing their areas in the field of sanitation, public space, public services and community empowerment. This award initiated by Ministry of Home Affairs in 2008 and will be repeated in 2010.

No	Areas	Sub Areas	City
1	Sanitation	Urban Sanitation Management	Pekalongan
			Probolinggo
			Padang
2	Public Space		Pontianak
			Probolinggo
			Bau-Bau
3	Public Services	Spatial Permit	Banjar Baru
4	Community Empowerment	Slum Upgrading	Balikpapan Cimahi
			Pekalongan

road near Pasar Baru Atas, Cimahi

Eventhough this competition followed by limited cities, this is a good beginning.
Other cities can learn from those cities to make a better city and a better process to deal with community.

ETHNOMETODOLOGY

ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE

This title is the same as a song that singing by Michael Jackson.
I want write this on the day his died and one week after I accompanied my husband on his graduation on the place that remind me on similar place that I ever came.

When you come to one place in city, sometimes you feel that your ever come on that place. Something that you feel familiar, the spaces, the trees, the buildings, and every elements that you encounter on that place.

Dejavu .......

Why do you feel like this? Probably because that areas have the same design, 'copycat', with the areas on the other place in the other country. When you come on that place, you are not feel strange and so you can easily adapted.

How do you think? Is it good?Some people say it's OK, but some people it's not. It's OK, as long as make the place better. No, because there is no unique place. Every cities have the same face. That make you don't know where you are now.

Do you think we need ethnometodology and ethnography to design and plan a place?

URBAN IDENTITY II

"THE SKYSCRAPER" (Urban Identity II)

“Lightening Flash”, this word mention on Thomas Kuhn book. About the metaphora of view phenomenon, a revolutionary change.

If you see Indonesian cities today, the images are very different with the cities before 2001, the starting year of decentralization. Some cities growing very fast because they get “wind fall profit from fiscal transfer”. In Jakarta, during 10 years of implementation decentralization, we find many things change. The building of skyscraper can be found everywhere. High rice building is climbing the sky. Open space become the focus of the urban managers and the planners. Mall become a cozy place for reunion when home become smaller.

This is very interesting, because we can see that we have a capability to do the same as developed country in developed high tech building. The engineer and workers can implement an utopia of urban managers, architects, urban planners and engineers. A dream to developed a place with impression and convenience like the other countries.

The revolutionary change is not an easy task.
An engineer should draw and design precisely to make a high rice building, safe and beauty. Those are about an effort in implementing a dream. A vision of city manager, as a dream, must have a good image of city. The engineer make dream become true.

So, if you want to develop your city, be confidence with the ability and experience of your human resources, their ability and experience. Some of them have an experience outside country. Don’t forget to pay them a good enough or reward enough.

(Reference book : Evalution Image of Cities by Kevin Lynch, and Urban Utopia by John Friedmann)