Actually the poverty is a problem that has already been since long time ago and almost can be said that it will become “the
eternal fact” in people’s life. The meaning of poverty itself as a scientific concept was born as the followed result from th e
development term. The poverty is considered as part of the development problem, whereby its existence is marked by the
presence of the unemployment and underdevelopment that increases, become imbalance in the future.
This study is intended to know the understand characteristics urban poverty to slums and squatters settlement in Semarang city.
This study approach is done by analyzing the life pattern of the poor society descriptively-qualitatively from their environment
physical condition, by establishing the variables of the environment life quality and the factors that can influence it such as: the economic social condition of its society and the environment physical condition that cover the provision of its environment
facilities and infrastructure.
From this study it is found that the urban poverty can be seen from the poor society limitation because they don’t have the
productive capital or assets i.e. lack of nutrient, clothes, the low education grade, lack of transportation; the financial sources
(income) and sufficient credit; they don’t have access to social, economic, and polit ical activities network that can be used to
achieve the common interest.

The main cause of the urban poverty is basically the result of interregional economic imbalance, and that is an economic
phenomenon. The poor society obstacles to access the urban services i.e. because their income is low so that they don’t have theability to pay the urban services; the government standard for the urban services are too high; the poor society are not well exist, the heterogeneous characteristics of social background and the poverty obscure the formed of the society group
organisation. At the last they impossible to claim the guarantee rights of fulfillment of the urban base treatments.

Keywords: Life Pattern, Poor Society