THE URBANIZATION IN SEMARANG CITY
Thepurpose thispaper is to provide a broad overview of the recent patternsand trends of urban growth, and to discuss the relationship between urbanization,economic and population growth and environment in Semarang City. Over the last20 years many urban areas have experienced dramatic growth, as a result of rapidpopulation growth and as the world's economy have been transformed by acombination of rapid technological and political change. Centralistic type ofdevelopment from New Era Government gives consequences in the formation ofmega urbanization. As a geographic phenomenon, urbanization is seen as acontinuumfrom community level until global level. In the cases of Semarang, thereis much more than a doubling. Net migration in many cases contributes as muchas two thirds of the population growth in these zones, whereas in the city cores, netmigration contributes little to growth. The main factor which is influencingurbanization process in Semarang is the growth of service sector, especiallyinformal activities. A comprehensive model suggests that urbanization in Semarangis influenced by structural and social demographic factors. So, the balancebetween managing urban discharges to environment and enhancing environmentalresource capacity is key determinant of the sustainability of the development inSemarang and livabilitY in general
