<![CDATA[The aim of this study is to evaluate spatial planning, especially for mining city, by using Spatial Multi Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) method. This Method is a compilation of Geographic Information System (SIG) and Multi Criteria Evaluation (MCE) that is developed by ITC – Netherlands as a module in ILWIS software. Nowadays, SMCE has been used for many applications, such as: transportation plan, land selection, disaster area mapping, etc. SMCE has several strengths, for example: it is able to combine spatial and non-spatial data. Generally, there are three main stages in SMCE that covers: intelligence, design, and evaluation. Result of the study shows that SMCE is applicable for evaluation of soil appropriateness for spatial planning in cities. SMCE is applicable for accommodating choices of stakeholders, it is also able to reconcile interest conflict that may appear from stakeholders, and lastly, it is good to evaluate land utilization based on some criteria. SMCE is helpful to make decision in determining policy of areaplanning, especially when it is based on spatial data. Research area can be categorized in five classes based on land suitability, they are: no suitability, low suitability, medium suitability, good suitability, and high suitability land for specific land usage. There are three main data used in this research: land utilization existing data which is taken from image analysis, SMCE map, and spatial plan map. These three maps are studied and overlayed to analyse the development of spatial pattern in study area which is resulted in table data. In general, land utilization that has been analysed in this research covers settlement, rice field, mining (tourism) and forest.]]>
