Growth of a Megacity: Planning Jakarta in the Post-Suburban Era

Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia, has grown from 150,000 residents in the first half of the twentieth century to more than 31 million residents in 2024.This tremendous population growth and the expansion of the urbanized areas have created several challenges as well as exposed the role of planning in shaping and managing the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA), also known as Jabodetabek. This edited volume argues that Jakarta exhibits several features of "post-suburban" development, but at the same time, the central area continues to attract population and urban growth.Thus, this metropolitan region is featuring a different type of post-suburban development that might also be considered as an "early stage" of post-suburbanization.The inner city and the suburbs (inner and outer suburbs) are all experiencing a massive physical, social, and economic transformation, albeit with different processes of attraction and rejection/eviction of different social groups.S