HOUSE COMMODIFICATION AND SOCIAL-ECONOMIC CHANGE IN PERI-URBAN AREA AROUND TELKOM UNIVERSITY, BANDUNG REGENCY

• Main Author: Santoso, Rahmawati
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Perencanaan wilayah
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/81357
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Peri-urban areas underwent adaptation from spreading urban activities. The embodiment of the complex and dynamic relationship of space and socioeconomic systems in the peri-urban area is clearly seen from the emergence of house commodification. In the peri-urban area around Telkom University, various urban activities spread and have the potential to affect the use of people's homes that adjust to demand. In this case, various urban activities that develop in the periurban area are estimated to also affect the house commodification. This study was conducted to identify the existence of house commodification and its asociation to socioeconomic changes in the peri-urban area around Telkom University, Bandung Regency. This study uses a mixed method (quantitative-qualitative) to explain the existence, characteristics, and process of house commodification and its association with social and economic changes in the peri-urban area around Telkom University. The results of this study show that the existence of urban activities in the form of educational activities that shift to the periphery encourages the commodification of houses in peri-urban areas. Population growth in the peri-urban area around Telkom University due to immigrants, most of whom are students, is associated with the commodification of houses. In regional development, commodification of houses occurs through changes in land use that trigger housing as well as through changes in house functions and increased intensity of house building. The commodification of houses that occur in peri-urban areas does not bring changes that are only limited to accumulative capital gains/sources of income but can also eliminate the residential function of commodified houses. In the long run and on a large scale, the commodification of houses, especially in the form of trade and services, can change the face of the region from a settlement to an area of commercial domination.