Towards a Communicative City: Enhancing Urban Planning Coordination by the Support of Information and Communication Technology. Case Study Bandung Metropolitan Area, Indonesia

摘要

Communicative city leads to the understanding of enhancing urban development performance by encouraging better interactive communication among development actors. This idea not only tries to provide better planning management in terms of governance system, but also planning engagement among development actors in terms of people centered development. This paper learns the preparedness of local governmental officials as forefront in planning decision making process, especially to utilize mobile technology in order to perform better planning performance. By emphasizing to the context of coordination in spatial planning process, appropriate technology in terms of mobile phone and internet connection have significant role in metropolitan's spatial planning process.Survey has been done to the governmental planning employees throughout regencies and autonomous cities within metropolitan Bandung, and found out that appropriate technology like mobile phone and internet connection plays as spatial planning support system and still can not be implemented to resolve spatial planning conflict in the spatial planning process that combine local and metropolitan governance concerns.