THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF WALKUP FLAT BUILDING TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF SLUM AREA

Abstract

Upon the developed country with high people population growth and low economic level, at several big cities such as Semarang and Makassar, slum areas could be discovered. Several inconvenient problems can cause fire and flood hazard. Those problems emerge because of the lack of environmental infrastructure and the social - economic condition. The theory of infrastructure explains that there is an interactive relationship between physical, social and economical development. Therefore, the developing of social and economical condition can be done by physical development such as environmental infrastructure. Due to the direct field observation in several low-prize flat building for low-income societies, which have been built closed to slum area, such as in Marisso Makassar, and Sawah Besar Semarang. One can get awareness to investigate, whether the building of walkup flat closed to slum area, can give the significant positive impact and stimulate the improvement and the enhancement of the quality of slum area or not, and how far those positive impacts will be. Even though staying in the walkup flat is the new experience for the Indonesian people, more and more people can complete the adaptation. Compared to staying in the slum area, there are many advantages, such as the certainty of the healthiness, fire hazard avoiding, and flood hazard avoiding, etc. The advantage can act as positive impact for the slum area, which is closed, or surrounding the flat. In the future, it is expected that there will be a mutual interaction between walkup flat and slum area.