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Jakarta: A city of cities
Jakarta, Indonesia's primate city and the world's second largest urban agglomeration, is undergoing a deep transformation. A fresh city profile of Jakarta is long overdue, given that there have been major events and developments since the turn of the millennium (the Asian Financial crisis...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442427/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32863521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102868 |
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author | Martinez, Rafael Masron, Irna Nurlina |
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description | Jakarta, Indonesia's primate city and the world's second largest urban agglomeration, is undergoing a deep transformation. A fresh city profile of Jakarta is long overdue, given that there have been major events and developments since the turn of the millennium (the Asian Financial crisis and decentralisation in Indonesia, among the most important), as well as the fact that the city is a living entity with its own processes to be examined. The inhabitants of the city have also taken centre stage now in these urban processes, including the recent pandemic COVID-19 response. Our paper profiles Jakarta heuristically in two cuts: presenting the city from conventional and academic perspectives of megacities like it, which includes contending with its negative perceptions, and more originally, observing the city from below by paying attention to the viewpoints of citizens and practitioners of the city. In doing so, we draw from history, geography, anthropology, sociology and political science as well as from our experience as researchers who are based in the region and have witnessed the transformation of this megacity from within, with the idea that the portrayal of the city is a project permanently under construction. |
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spelling | pubmed-74424272020-08-24 Jakarta: A city of cities Martinez, Rafael Masron, Irna Nurlina Cities City Profile Jakarta, Indonesia's primate city and the world's second largest urban agglomeration, is undergoing a deep transformation. A fresh city profile of Jakarta is long overdue, given that there have been major events and developments since the turn of the millennium (the Asian Financial crisis and decentralisation in Indonesia, among the most important), as well as the fact that the city is a living entity with its own processes to be examined. The inhabitants of the city have also taken centre stage now in these urban processes, including the recent pandemic COVID-19 response. Our paper profiles Jakarta heuristically in two cuts: presenting the city from conventional and academic perspectives of megacities like it, which includes contending with its negative perceptions, and more originally, observing the city from below by paying attention to the viewpoints of citizens and practitioners of the city. In doing so, we draw from history, geography, anthropology, sociology and political science as well as from our experience as researchers who are based in the region and have witnessed the transformation of this megacity from within, with the idea that the portrayal of the city is a project permanently under construction. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11 2020-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7442427/ /pubmed/32863521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102868 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | City Profile Martinez, Rafael Masron, Irna Nurlina Jakarta: A city of cities |
title | Jakarta: A city of cities |
title_full | Jakarta: A city of cities |
title_fullStr | Jakarta: A city of cities |
title_full_unstemmed | Jakarta: A city of cities |
title_short | Jakarta: A city of cities |
title_sort | jakarta: a city of cities |
topic | City Profile |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442427/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32863521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102868 |
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