Urban Design Guidelines as Design Control Instrument with a case study of the Silver Triangle Superblock, Jakarta

Urban Design Guidelines have been used in Jakarta for controlling the form of the built environment. This planning instrument has been implemented in several central city redevelopment projects particularly in superblock areas. The instrument has gained popularity and implemented in new development and conservation areas as well. Despite its popularity, there is no formal literature on the Indonesian Urban Design Guideline that systematically explain its contents, structure and the formulation process. This dissertation attempts to explain the substantive of urban design guideline and the way to control its implementation. Various streams of urban design theories are presented and evaluated in term of their suitability for attaining a high urbanistic quality in major Indonesian cities. The explanation on the form and the practical application of this planning instrument is elaborated in a comparative investigation of similar instrument in other countries; namely the USA, Britain and Germany. A case study of a superblock development in Jakarta demonstrates the application of the urban design theories and guideline. Currently, the role of computer in the process of formulating the urban design guideline in Indonesia is merely as a replacement of the manual method, particularly in areas of worksheet calculation and design presentation. Further support of computer for urban planning and design tasks has been researched in developed countries, which shows its potential in supporting decision-making process, enabling public participation, team collaboration, documentation and publication of urban design decisions and so on. It is hoped that the computer usage in Indonesian urban design process can catch up with the global trend of multimedia, networking (Internet/Intranet) and interactive functions that is presented with examples from developed countries.Urban Design Guidelines as Design Control Instrument with a case study of the Silver Triangle Superblock, Jakart

La métamorphose dans l'oeuvre de Steven Millhauser.

Steven Millhauser's fiction is characterized by perpetual movement: a transition from realism to the fantastic, with plots which resist denouement and characters, places and objects in constant transformation. Millhauser's work offers the reader a literary metamorphosis which is both stylistic and thematic. The millhauserien metamorphosis is typically American, the offspring of Emersonian philosophy, and it highlights the transformative power of art and, specifically, of literature. Using the mutually transformative relationship between art and cultural identity as a starting point, this thesis demonstrates the ways in which Millhauser's fiction develops the metamorphic nature of the esthetic experience. The relationship between the reader, the text and the author is at the heart of literary metamorphosis, and this transformative relationship, which often appears in Millhauser's work, sets the stage for an exploration of the possibilities and limits of language. If Millhauser's fiction illustrates the destructive potential of linguistic metamorphosis, and articulates a certain anxiety concerning the limits of language, his work is nonetheless dominated by the sentiment of wonder and hope in the regenerative value of fiction and its power to reveal the unusual beauty of a world which has become ordinary.La fiction de Steven Millhauser est caractérisée par le mouvement perpétuel : un mouvement générique du réalisme au fantastique, avec des intrigues qui résistent aux dénouements et des personnages, des lieux et des objets en transformation constante. Son œuvre nous présente exploration de la métamorphose littéraire, qui se manifeste à la fois comme style d'écriture et comme motif. Enracinée dans une conception typiquement américaine de la métamorphose, née de la philosophie Ralph Waldo Emerson, la métamorphose millhauserienne attire l'attention du lecteur sur le pouvoir transformateur de l'art et plus spécifiquement de la littérature. Utilisant la relation entre l'art et l'identité culturelle comme point de départ, notre thèse montre que la fiction de Millhauser développe la nature métamorphique de l'expérience esthétique. Au cœur de la dynamique de la métamorphose littéraire se trouve la relation entre lecteur, texte et auteur, relation transformatrice que Millhauser met en scène à plusieurs reprises, afin d'explorer les possibilités et les limites du language. Si sa fiction illustre le potentiel destructeur de la métamorphose linguistique, et manifeste aussi une certaine angoisse concernant les limites du langage, son œuvre est néanmoins dominée par un sentiment d'émerveillement et d'espoir dans la valeur régénératrice de la fiction, et son pouvoir de faire resurgir la beauté d'un monde devenu ordinaire