Morphological Analysis of Siak Sri Indrapura City in 2005-2018

Abstract

Abstract Siak Sri Indrapura City is the one of a quite fast city in developing; it has increasingly seen since Tengku Agung Sultanah Latifah Bridge in 2007 which is the link between two areas that glide by the river for perfect accessibility. This study aims to examine the morphology Siak Sri Indrapura City in 2005-2018. The method of this study to use descriptive qualitative and quantitative analysis with GIS (Geographic Information System), which is analyzing and explaining phenomena in depth through in-depth data collection. The results of this study are known that the City of Siak Sri Indrapura experienced changed in land cover, land use, road and changed in building patterns and functions each year. The increase of the not built area is 15589 Ha or 83.45%, changed from the not built area into the built area is 2052 Ha or 10.99% and increase of land built area is 1039 Ha or 5.56%. The most dominant changed in land use in Siak Sri Indrapura City was increased of plantations, changed of plantations into settlements and increased of settlements. Road pattern is grid building pattern is heterogeneous and linear, a function of buildings dominated by residential buildings.