TY - JOUR
T1 - Questioning Urban Symbolism in the Old City of Semarang
AU - Lukito, Yulia Nurliani
AU - Pratama, Putri Widya
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by research grant Hibah PITTA from the Directorate of Research and Community Engagement, Universitas Indonesia.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2018/12/28
Y1 - 2018/12/28
N2 - The aim of this paper is to analyze urban symbolism in the old city of Semarang, Central Java that is created from the physical and the non-physical elements of the city. Through historical analysis, the paper attempts to relate the physical elements that come from the structure of the city, such as buildings and transportation, with the non-physical elements that come from history and events. When Dutch colonialism came to an end, some colonial buildings in the old city of Semarang started to be neglected. However, urban symbolism created from trading, transportation and culture provides layers to the identity and culture of the city, which includes Chinese, Arab and indigenous culture. Recent effort to revitalize the city focuses primarily on physical aspects, rather than balancing both physical and non-physical aspects of the old city of Semarang. The result of this paper reveals that balancing both physical and non-physical elements of the city means taking a step further in understanding important things for the city. Moreover, understanding urban symbolism is necessary in sustaining the history and identity of the city as well as in giving direction to the development of the old city of Semarang.
AB - The aim of this paper is to analyze urban symbolism in the old city of Semarang, Central Java that is created from the physical and the non-physical elements of the city. Through historical analysis, the paper attempts to relate the physical elements that come from the structure of the city, such as buildings and transportation, with the non-physical elements that come from history and events. When Dutch colonialism came to an end, some colonial buildings in the old city of Semarang started to be neglected. However, urban symbolism created from trading, transportation and culture provides layers to the identity and culture of the city, which includes Chinese, Arab and indigenous culture. Recent effort to revitalize the city focuses primarily on physical aspects, rather than balancing both physical and non-physical aspects of the old city of Semarang. The result of this paper reveals that balancing both physical and non-physical elements of the city means taking a step further in understanding important things for the city. Moreover, understanding urban symbolism is necessary in sustaining the history and identity of the city as well as in giving direction to the development of the old city of Semarang.
KW - colonial building
KW - history of Semarang
KW - old city of Semarang
KW - urban symbolism
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U2 - 10.1088/1755-1315/213/1/012027
DO - 10.1088/1755-1315/213/1/012027
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85060020645
VL - 213
JO - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
JF - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
SN - 1755-1307
IS - 1
M1 - 012027
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Sustainability in Architectural Design and Urbanism, ICSADU 2018
Y2 - 29 August 2018
ER -