Since the establishment of the Real Estate Indonesia (REI) in 1970s, private urban housing development in has flourished in the country. It has also gradually grown from a “primordial” mode such as with Pondok Indah (Beautiful House), Kelapa Gading, Sunter, Pluit and Bintaro (which were named after their locations). Today it includes housing estates that attempt to sell “dreams”, such as Kota Wisata (literally “Tour City”). Here clusters of housing bear names like Mediterranean Lagoon Apartment, Beverly Hills Cluster, Queen Victoria Residence, Raffles Hills, Vienna Cluster, Monaco, New Orlando, Den Haag, Central Park, The Hollywood Apartment, Alexandria Residence, The Beverly Hills Resort Residence, Gold Coast Apartment, Santa Monica City Home, Paris Residence BSD, etc. Development of this kind has grown at unprecedented rates everywhere in Jakarta and in other big cities in Indonesia. What do you think of this phenomenon in Asia ? or maybe just in Jakarta - Indonesia ?
(from IASTE forum 13 - 18 Dec 2006 - by Triatno Yudo Harjoko & Peter YG )
think design !