Ketidakmampuan kota utama dalam menerima tekanan akibat peningkatan aktivitas perkotaan telah mendorong terjadinya perluasan pembangunan ke daerah pinggiran. Fenomena ini juga terlihat pada daerah pinggiran Kota Jakarta dan Kota Bekasi dengan adanya pembangunan Kota Harapan Indah (KHI) yang dianggap sebagai solusi untuk memecahkan permasalahan perkotaan, memperluas ketersediaan perumahan dan infrastruktur, dan mengurangi disparitas antara kota utama dan daerah pinggiran kota. Pembangunan skala besar selain mengubah fisik kawasan pinggiran, juga tampak memberikan konsekuensi terhadap kondisi sosial-ekonomi masyarakat lokal. Mereka yang awalnya mendiami dan menggantungkan kehidupannya pada kawasan tersebut tampak mengalami pemindahan baik secara langsung (primary displacement) maupun tidak langsung (secondary displacement). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi dampak pembangunan kota baru terhadap perubahan fisik kawasan dan kondisi ekonomi masyarakat yang mengalami pemindahan akibat pembangunan. Selain itu penelitian ini juga menginvestigasi bagaimana hubungan antara karakteristik ekonomi masyarakat lokal yang mengalami pemindahan dengan tipe dan penyebab pemindahan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan memanfaatkan GIS untuk overlay data spasial dan pengujian statistik chi-square. Hasil temuan membuktikan bahwa terjadi perubahan fisik kawasan berupa perubahan penggunaan lahan yang signifikan untuk pemenuhan kebutuhan perumahan dan infrastruktur perkotaan. Selain itu, sebesar 89% masyarakat lokal mengalami tipe pemindahan langsung akibat pembangunan kota baru. Hasil statistik memperlihatkan bahwa tipe pemindahan berkorelasi kuat dengan jenis pekerjaan setelah pemindahan maupun jumlah pendapatan setelah pemindahan. Sedangkan penyebab masyarakat lokal mengalami pemindahan berhubungan erat dengan jenis pekerjaan setelah pemindahan, serta pendapatan baik sebelum dan setelah pemindahan.

Development of a toll road infrastructure serves as a hub for growth centers and global connections, on the other side, this infrastructure development will instead break local connections and further marginalize lower-class society. Trying to prove the thought, this paper aims to analyze the impact of Semarang - Solo toll road construction on socio-spatial communities in Kandangan Village. This research utilizes livelihood asset variables in the form of social capital, human capital, financial capital, natural resource capital, and physical capital. The method used in this research is the analysis of settlement patterns utilizing GIS, and regression analysis that served to know the size of the socio-spatial disintegration that occurred after construction. The results show that the spatial impacts caused by toll road construction resulted in the physical changes of settlements in Kandangan Village which can be seen from the changes in settlement patterns between the period of 2011 and 2017. Meanwhile, the social impacts show the characteristics of the five livelihood assets that change after the construction of the toll road. The findings of this study indicate that Kandangan village experiences socio-spatial disintegration with moderate levels. Although Kandangan Village has a moderate socio-spatial disintegration level, it doesn’t cause social conflict.

Development in accordance with disaster mitigation policies in urban areas sometimes involves relocation and forced eviction of people living in informal settlements. Semarang City has the same experience. In 2019 the normalization project of the Banjir Kanal Timur river as a government effort to control flooding had displaced the local communities in Tambakrejo. This paper aims to criticize the implementation of flood disaster mitigation projects that impact poor households and assess their livelihood assets after displacement. Utilizing spatial data and primary data collection using the purposive sampling method were carried out during the fieldwork. The findings highlight that, irrespective of potential opportunities to avoid local communities from flood risk and safer place to live, on the other hand, local communities experience impacts on their livelihood assets and unclear compensation for their assets. This phenomenon proves that there are still many challenges to creating safe, comfortable, and sustainable urban development mandated in Law No. 26 of 2007. In the name of national projects, this action has taken away the “right to the city”, has increased marginalized urban communities, and the emergence of urban social issues such as the affected communities’ dissatisfaction with local government authorities

The eruption of Mount Kelud in February 2014 released eruptive material that caused lava flooding from the sub-watershed. Lava floods cause land-use changes, land damage, and infrastructure damage. Ngantang Sub-district Malang Regency is the area most severely affected by the eruption of Mount Kelud. This paper aims as a preventive effort to reduce disaster risk through spatial evaluation of vulnerability due to lahar sediments and directives for infrastructure and settlement planning in volcanic areas. Using scoring and map overlay techniques for vulnerability analysis and planning directions. The findings highlight that villages along the river have a higher level of vulnerability and disaster risk and are not recommended to build and use land within a 100 meters radius of the river wall for various community activities. Another finding is the lack of strong indicators of disaster risk reduction capacity in Ngantang Sub-district. This phenomenon proves that there are still many challenges to realizing disaster risk reduction as mandated in Law No. 24 of 2007 and Regulation of the Head of BNPB No. 2 of 2012.