Land Use Change in Sub District Mranggen Because of Residential Development

AbstractThe availability of land within the city are fixed and cannot be limited meet the needs of the population, and that causing the space to the occurrence of the function of land in suburban areas. The process of physical appearance spread outwards urban areas referred to as urban sprawl. Development of Semarang had an impact on the emergence of the region that has characterized the urban areas of the suburbs, one of them in the Mranggen Sub-district that borders the city of Semarang. The change of land use influenced by the construction of a small house on a large scale (Perumnas Pucang Gading) resulting in a change in the characteristics of land use change in Sub district Mranggen this course has specific characteristics that lead to changes in land use from village to urban areas. What kind of urban land use change that happened in Mranggen?. Methods used to analyze the development of the land over the function using a geographic information system (GIS), to describe spatial patterns that can be used to assist in decision-making in the planning area