Nowadays urban population particularly settled in cities is more increasing over the world. This trend leads to an
opinion that urban area tends to become the hardest places of energy consumption. There is a kind of consensus
considered that sustainable development take an essential role to urban development in the future. A sustainable
development is a concept of development which syncronize a collaboration between the needs and limited resources.
This urban sustainable development indicator could be seen on its balanced factors of economics, social and
environmental.
Compact city is one of a growing discourse on examining the patterns in space and form of the sustainable city. In a
compact city, there is a high emphasize focused on the program of urban containment, namely to provide a mix-use
concentration that socially sustained. Some policies of scenario used to be taken to create a compact city are not
only to improve hi-densed settlement with its assmilation and to develope a mixed land use between residential and
commercial but also to maintain a clear boundary between housing and farmland.
The idea of Compact city is originated by compact model development of most historic cities in europe. However,
the problem of the idea remarkably questioned whether the concept is suitable in accord with the urban development
character in developing countries. The UNCHS has predicted that in 2015 about 22 of 26 mega-cities will be in
developing countries. Infact, mega-cities in developing countries seems to be compact enought, which means it is
already rigid, found its own shape. But this fact also doesn’t meant that those cities are sustained on the same way.
Compact city policies in Indonesia perhaps better emphasized to achieve a sustainable conditions through the
efficient infrastructure supply; Balance activity of the urban area; Close urban-rural linkage; and security of social
equity. Some opportunities toward the sustained Compact city could be challenge; to improve and to build vertical; a
supportive mass transportation system; double core city afford; to arrange buildings and environment for energy
saving; and to maintain a friendly urban space to pedestrian
