City personification as problem solving to strengthen the wholeness of the city: study case in Serui city, Papua

[摘要] Serui City in Papua Province has many unique characters and must be maintained for the sake of the continuity of its identity. However, this city still lacks the facility and depend on other areas. Accordingly, it becomes vulnerable. The wholeness of the city is not just by having strong character but also having strength regarding vitality. The loss of it can affect the character and even eliminate it. Cities and people have many similarities regarding character and vitality. Therefore, there is a chance to solve the problems in the city using the similar approach to treat the human. We called city personification methods as problem-solving to the city. It means that we treat the city as a human being so that the problem can be solved as the human's treatment. The personification of this city is conducted because of the many treatments that have proven effective in humans and may also be powerful to manifest in city. The personification makes the design will only focus on the particular networks and not on the whole "body," remain in the hope for strengthening (maintain and improve) the quality of wholeness (character and vitality) city which in this case is Serui.

[发布机构] Department of Architecture Bldg, FTUI, Universitas Indonesia, Depok Campus, 16424, Indonesia^1

[效力级别] 经济学

[关键词] City personification;Human being;Serui;Study case;Vitality;Wholeness