Daftar Isi:
  • Urbanization problems and sustainable development has become global issues and got a lot of attention from stakeholders in various countries. Indonesia as developing country faces their significant problem in urban management complexity. The city government take the real impact of development problems that increasingly difficult to control. Batu city is the youngest autonomous city in East Java province, Indonesia, located in the upper Brantas river and has steep slope topography. Since its establishment, Batu City has experienced the rapid economic and population growth whict allegedly also cause the increase of environmental degradation. The purpose of this research is to analyze the sustainability index value of ecological, economic, socio-cultural, infrastructure and institutional dimensision in assessing the development sustainability status of Batu city using Multidimensional scaling (MDS) analysis, analyzing the sensitive attributes of sustainability dimensions using leverage analysis and develop the strategies in sustainable urban development using SWOT analysis. The results showed that the development sustainability status of Batu city, the ecological dimension in the category of less sustainable (46.90 %), the economic dimension is sustainable enough (56.52 %), the social dimensionis sustainable enuogh (60.40 %), the infrastructure dimension is sustainable enough (63.31 %), and the institutional dimensions in sustainable enough (72.68 %). Attributes that affect the sustainability status assessment in terms of the ecological dimension are water quality, air quality and biodiversity; in the review of the economic dimension are investment growth, price stability and tourism visitation; while from socio-cultural dimension are porverty, health and security; in terms of the dimensions of infrastructure are public sanitation , affordable hause and clean water pipeline; and the institutional dimension are development planning, information systems and local apparatus.