Mega-Heritage: Quantitative Study of Historical Kampung in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Abstract

Historical built environments are cultural resources and their discovery is the role of architectural history.However, they have not been investigated sufficiently in megacities, whose urban areas are too extensive to be fully explored with existing methods. This study aims to discover historical built environments in Jakarta, the second largest megacity in the world. With a new method utilizing GIS, it investigates historical highdense neighborhoods called kampung, which means “village” in Indonesian language. It clarifies that 58% of the residential areas in Jakarta are historical kampungs, which has a relatively high proportion of the natives of Jakarta. The method should be further developed for its application to other megacities.