Herman Thomas Karsten (22 April 1884, Amsterdam – 1945, Cimahi ) was a Dutch engineer who gave major contributions to architecture and town planning in Indonesia during Dutch colonial rule . Most significantly he integrated the practice of colonial urban environment with native elements; a radical approach to spatial planning for Indonesia at the time. He introduced a neighborhood plan for all ethnic groups in Semarang , built public markets in Yogyakarta and Surakarta , and a city square in the capital Batavia (now ' Jakarta '). Between 1915 and 1941 he was given responsibility for planning 12 out of 19 municipalities in Java , 3 out of 9 towns in Sumatra and a town in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo ). He received official recognition from both the government through his appointment to the colony's major Town Planning Committee and by the academic community with his appointment to the position of Lecturer for Town Planning at the School of Engineering at Bandung . He died in an internment camp near Bandung in 1945 during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies .
18-569: (Redirected from Carsten ) For other uses, see Karsten (disambiguation) . Karsten or Carsten is a both a given name and a surname. It is believed to be either derived from a Low German form of Christian , or "man from karst ". Notable persons with the name include: Given name [ edit ] Carsten Carsten Höller (born 1961), German artist Carsten Jancker (born 1974), German footballer and coach Carsten Niebuhr (1733–1815), German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in
36-540: Is an activity of interconnected components (social, technology, etc.) that is needed to be addressed harmoniously. His idea for a methodological approach to create an organic town plan with a social dimension received much acclaim in the colony, as well as in the Netherlands. Karsten's paper gave major influence in the government plan for public housing. Among them were the municipal guidelines for urban extension and housing (1926), municipal priority rights on land (1926) and
54-400: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas Karsten Raised in a well-educated family, young Thomas Karsten developed progressive and liberal ideas. His father was a professor in philosophy and a university vice-chancellor, while his sister was the first woman in the Netherlands to study chemistry. Thomas Karsten enrolled at
72-454: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Karsten (disambiguation) Karsten may refer to: Karsten , both a given name and a surname. Karsten (fish) , genus of fish in the family Oxudercidae. Karsten Creek , a golf club located near Stillwater, Oklahoma See also [ edit ] Carsten (disambiguation) Karstens (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
90-555: Is known as Jatinegara ), Yogyakarta , Surakarta , Purwokerto , Padang , Medan and Banjarmasin . After long career working privately for municipal authorities, the government recognized Thomas Karsten by appointing him to official committees. First he was in the Bouwbeperkingscommissie (1930) ('Building Works Committee'), and later to the Stadsvormingscommissie (1934) ('Town Planning Committee'). In 1941, he
108-625: The Dutch East Indies (present day of Indonesia), which he saw as a neutral and a far distance place from the war. He went to Java on the invitation of Henri Maclaine Pont , a former fellow student, to assist Pont's architecture firm. Never trained as a town planner, Karsten envisaged the Indies-architectural elements with a town planning approach from scratch. His social vision guided him to reject colonial town planning but to shape colonial urban environment by including native elements. In
126-646: The 'New Candi' plan, an extension plan of the Semarang's master plan to accommodate all ethnic groups according to their own habits. He produced a master plan for new suburbs in Batavia including the central city square. In 1921, Thomas Karsten presented a paper of the Indies Town Planning at the Decentralisation Congress. The paper was seen of a new radical idea in which Karsten argued that a town planning
144-715: The 1920s he committed himself to the Dutch East Indies saying Java was his 'home' and that his growing antipathy towards 'Western civilization' helped him to articulate his work. He married a Javanese woman. By 1918, he had defined a set of principles for his town planning which saw him engaged as a consultant for major cities in the colony. He was a town planning consultant for Semarang (1916–20, 1936), Buitenzorg (now ' Bogor ') (1920–23), Madiun (1929), Malang (1930–35), Batavia (Jakarta) (1936–37), Magelang (1937–38), Bandung (1941), as well as Cirebon , Meester Cornelis (part of Jakarta which
162-593: The Delft Polytechnische School (precursor of the Delft University of Technology ) in the Netherlands and initially studied mechanical engineering , before changing to structural engineering following major institutional reforms to the school. Karsten was not among the leaders in his study, but he graduated from a faculty that had only produced between 3 and 10 graduates until 1920. Karsten's hometown
180-591: The Dutch governments' early twentieth century introduction of the Ethical Policy . A new Decentralisation Act ( Decentralitatiewet ) was enacted in 1903 that enabled local municipalities and regional governments to develop and to plan their own territory. Most northern coastal towns of Java had to deal with unrelenting population increases, and a subsequent huge demand for houses and infrastructures, sanitation, and other related development. Thomas Karsten saw himself as being at
198-722: The Name . Retrieved December 18, 2016 . [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share the same given name or the same family name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karsten&oldid=1255710499 " Categories : Given names Surnames German masculine given names Masculine given names Low German given names Norwegian masculine given names German-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#1732883675276216-581: The provision of up to 50% of subsidies and guidelines for kampong (villages) improvement projects (1928). In 1930, Thomas Karsten together with other prominent architects, politicians and bureaucrats in the colony was appointed by the government to the Town Planning Committee. The committee produced a draft of Town Planning Ordinance in 1938 for the town planning regulations to organise buildings and construction in accordance with social and geographical characteristics and their expected growth. The plan
234-521: The right time with the town planning of Semarang in 1914 by working at Henry Maclaine's architecture firm. In colonialism , all social components are expressed through the articulation of the 'form of difference', and the colonial urban planning was precisely implemented by the order of relationship between various ethnically, racially and economically urban dwellers. Karsten rejected this idea and began to include more indigenous elements intertwined with those typical European elements. In 1917, he presented
252-428: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Karsten . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karsten_(disambiguation)&oldid=1037890515 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
270-2602: The service of Denmark Carsten Pohl (born 1965), German basketball coach Carsten Charles Sabathia (born 1980), American baseball player Carsten Schatz (born 1970), German historian and politician Carsten Schneider (born 1976), German politician Karsten Karsten Alnæs (born 1938), Norwegian author, historian, and journalist Karsten Andersen (1920–1997), Norwegian conductor Big Daddy Karsten (born 1989), 2017 Eurovision Jury List; Norwegian Pre-select for Eurovision (Melodi Grand Prix 2021) Karsten Buer (1913–1993), Norwegian harness coach Karsten Fonstad (1900–1970), Norwegian politician Karsten Forsterling (born 1980), Australian rower Karsten Isachsen (1944–2016), Norwegian Lutheran priest, essayist and public speaker Karsten Jakobsen (1928–2019), Norwegian engineer Karsten Johannessen (1925–2018), Norwegian footballer and coach Karsten Kroon (born 29 January 1976), Dutch former professional road bicycle racer Karsten Solheim (1911–2000), Norwegian-born American golf club designer and businessman Karsten Warholm (born 1996), Norwegian athlete Surname [ edit ] Adrian Karsten (1960–2005), American college football reporter Christoffer Christian Karsten (1756–1827), Swedish opera singer Ekaterina Karsten (born 1972), Belarusian Olympic rower Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten (1783–1856), Swedish painter Elke Karsten (born 1995), Argentine handball player Frank Karsten (born 1984), Dutch Magic: The Gathering player Frank M. Karsten (1913–1992), American politician George Karsten (1863–1937), German botanist Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817–1908), German botanist and geologist Gustav Karsten (1820–1900), German physicist Kai Karsten (born 1968), German Olympic sprinter Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten (1782–1853), German mineralogist Karl G. Karsten (1891–1968), American economist, statistician and businessman Petter Adolf Karsten (1834–1917), Finnish mycologist Sophie Karsten (1783–1862), Swedish dancer and artist Sophie Mariane Karsten (1753–1848), Polish opera singer Thomas Karsten (1885–1945), Dutch engineer Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten (1732–1787), German mathematician See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Karsten All pages with titles containing Karsten MV Carsten Carlsten (name) Carstens Karstens (disambiguation) References [ edit ] ^ "Karsten" . Behind
288-431: Was Amsterdam and in the early 1920s, the city suffered major socio-economic problems. There was a highly segmented urban environment with extreme poverty , ethnic (particularly Jewish ) segregation, and inequality. In 1908–1911, while Karsten was still a student, he was closely involved with the proponents of public housing reform in preparing a new housing project. Thomas Karsten's ideology towards social reform movements
306-899: Was appointed to lecture at the School of Engineering at Bandung. During the Japanese occupation in Indonesia , Thomas Karsten was imprisoned at camp Baros in Cimahi near Bandung. He died at the camp in 1945. His building projects included large two-storey homes with steeply pitched roofs for members for elite Dutch citizens, new palace pavilions that were both European and traditional Javanese for indigenous royalty, public market buildings in Yogyakarta and Surakarta, and grand headquarters for companies. Several cities in Java and Sumatra underwent major renovation plans following
324-731: Was developed during this time. He was a member of the Socialistische Technische Vereeniging, or Association of Socialist Engineers, and later he joined its sister organization in Java . He significantly contributed in a town planning report in the Netherlands, called Volkshuisvesting in de Nieuwe Stad te Amsterdam (1909) or 'Public Housing in the New City of Amsterdam'. Members of this project were socialist reformists, architects and feminists. To escape World War I in Europe , he moved to
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