Desakota

Desakota describes in urban geography rooms in the extended outskirts of large cities, where urban and agricultural use and settlement forms occur side by side and are strongly mixed.

The term was first coined in 1990 by the New Zealand urban researcher Terry G. McGee and is desa from the Indonesian words, village ' and kota, city ' derived. Such spaces are typically used in Asia, particularly in South East Asia. Examples are in the urbanized areas of Java, the most densely-populated delta -shaped spaces on the peripheries of the agglomeration of Jakarta ( " Jabotabek "), but also the extended metropolitan regions of Bangkok or Manila. Desakota areas are outside the peri-urban areas from which daily commute into the city proper is readily possible, that removes more than 30 km from the city center. Often they extend along of default and connecting roads, partly from a metropolitan area to the next. They are of high population density and intensive agriculture (especially Nassreisfeldbau ) dominated, but differ by city more similar characteristics of densely populated rural areas. These criteria are developed transport networks, large mobility of the population, increasing activity outside agriculture, the coexistence of many different forms of land use, greater participation of women in employment and unregulated land use.

With the emergence of Desakota regions are associated due to their extensive expansion and verschwimmender boundaries difficulties for management, as can be difficult to implement unified plans, arrangements and designs. Desakota areas are characterized by high mobility of goods and services and rapid changes in settlement patterns. The settlement geographical division into functionally specialized areas they largely escape. Add them as different uses such as traditional agriculture, heavy industry and small, domestic trade, amusement parks and golf courses, shopping centers and retail warehouse agglomerations and urban forms of informal settlements come close to gated communities coexist.

Outside of Southeast Asia rooms were described with comparable properties in China, India, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.