SETTLEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION ON DEGRADATED LOCATION
SETTLEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION ON DEGRADATED LOCATION*) By: PARFI KHADIYANTO **) ABSTRACT Genuk Semarang District is an area of which functioned as an industrial area in Semarang city. What happened next is mixing between industrial area and dense settlement, which is grew organically and planned. Because of the lack of area capacity, developer built new settlement area by doing fishpond reclamation. The unstable reclamation land was significantly going down (land subsidence), so the settlement above is always suffused by the rob flood. Flood caused by the sea level rising (rob) which happened there, has increasing intensity year after year, higher and more often. Added by inappropriate quality standard of the building and salting process from the sea breeze, hence electronic goods, fence from iron, motorcycle, etc, become vulnerable and quickly damaged. However, its society do not want to move out, they prefer to stay and adapting, by changing the environment to become more adjus...