A Model of Environmental Harmony towards Sustainable Walk-up Flats Community in Kemayoran-Jakarta

Abstract

How to create a sustainable community is the main problem in the urban settlement development. It is no exception for the walk-up flats development. The general objective of this research was to formulate the model of environmental harmony to create a sustainable walk-up flats community. There are three specific objectives. The fisrt is to prove the effect of individual on the sustainability of community. It was used the survey methode using questionnaire and the regression analysis to test the conceptual model. The second is to identify the effort to create a sustainable community. It was used the interview which directed to find it.  The third is to recognize the characteristics of the model of environmental harmony. It was achieved by sintesize the output of the first and the second objectives. The results were: 1) the individual affects the sustainability of community significantly; 2) to create the community sustainability needs the law enforcement at the flats which depend on the local leadership; 3) the nature of the model is a dynamics which includes individual harmony, social harmony, and harmony with other elements of the walk-up flats environment which synergizes each other.

Keywords: environmental harmony, sustainable community, walk-up flats, elements of environment