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Jurnal Pendidikan Geografi: Kajian, Teori, dan Praktek dalam Bidang Pendidikan dan Ilmu Geografi

Abstract

Aim of this study is to analyze the impact of urban sprawl on the residential and social segregation in western suburb area of Malang city. This research has been conducted through combination of qualitative and quantitative methods or mixed method. Quantitative method was undertook to identify the urban sprawl. Urban sprawl was detected by means of urban morphology approach. Quantitative method was represented by: (1) the processing of Normalized Difference Built up Index to identify the built-up area growth and (2) delineation of residential area types taken from Google earth and ground checking at the study location. Qualitative method was done by using the hermeneutical phenomenology to investigate the social segregation. Research’s result showed that there is urban sprawl, impacting on spatial structure changes. Spatial structure has been shown by the alteration of non-built-up areas into planned settlements separated from village, further referred as residential segregation. Residential segregation shows that there is social segregation between the migrants and natives in western suburb area of Malang city. This research concludes that the urban sprawl has implication on shifting process of rural to suburb area. However, the shifting process does not impact on systematic social dimension between the migrants and natives.

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