History of the city solo

History of the city solo

Solo no more than a quiet secluded village, 10 km to the east Kartasura, the capital of the Mataram kingdom. Pakubuwana II who became King of Mataram support the Chinese against the Dutch, then Pakubuwono II to find a place that is more favorable to rebuild his kingdom, and in the year 1745 the kingdom was dismantled and carried to the city of Surakarta is located on the banks of Kali (River) Solo.



February 18, 1745 considered the official birthday of the city. It is said that the place he chose to become the new palace was situated in a small lake. historian's "chronicle" or official court records still mention that the lake was drained by supporting the myth of the queen of the southern sea, Nyi Roro Kidul.

Solo City We developed a tool - a tool for advocacy and development planning in the city of Surakarta (Solo), Central Java, Indonesia.

This initiative began in March 2009 in the form of "pilot projects". A number of students of architecture and urban design from the University Eleven in March to do a small survey in several villages in the city of Solo. With support from Mayor Solo Joko Widodo, a survey was developed for all 51 villages in the city of Solo. Since then, the team of Solo City with the help of a facilitator We collect administrative data and the voice of residents in each village. Survey completed in June 2010 and information compiled in the form of 51 mini-atlas.

The purpose of Solo City We are increasing public awareness of urban problems and strengthening community voices in the participatory budgeting process known as Musrenbang _yang.

In raising awareness of urban problems, mini-atlas shows how life in the village running and also patterns of social and economic relations. For the first time in 2010, a mini atlas allows residents who want to engage in Musrenbang can access information about the village and how development in the village running. Making decisions with data base information can strengthen the relationship between wants and needs of people with how development investment by the government in the village.

Our team brings many perspectives, but have the same attention to development in urban villages and urban growth in general. Design we developed is intended to improve the system of village-level development, and that's why our focus is to provide guidance for the creation of "physical space" kelurahan_proses participatory budgeting. So by providing a tool (tools) for residents to be more effective in musrenbang, we tried to improve environments in the village.