Historical "intimacy" in Malay urban core configurations - a comparative analysis

This paper focuses on analysis of the historical pre-colonial configurations of a series of urban cores in Malay sites along the Selat Melaka. The objective of this research is to identify the pattern and variations of each pre-colonial royal town from the perspective of urban design principle such...

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Main Authors:	Ibrahim, Illyani, Abdul Latip, Nurul Syala, Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen, Harun, Nor Zalina
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	G Geography (General)
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spelling	iium-693452019-01-22T07:04:54Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/69345/ Historical "intimacy" in Malay urban core configurations - a comparative analysis Ibrahim, Illyani Abdul Latip, Nurul Syala Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen Harun, Nor Zalina G Geography (General) This paper focuses on analysis of the historical pre-colonial configurations of a series of urban cores in Malay sites along the Selat Melaka. The objective of this research is to identify the pattern and variations of each pre-colonial royal town from the perspective of urban design principle such as "intimacy" and "walkability" which can affect and reduce, long-term sustainable parameters in tropical cities such as ‘urban heat island'. While this traditional character is increasingly disappearing due to modern urbanization, the difficulty is related to the degree of organic character or randomness in the past layout of these traditional urban cores. It argues that such configurations reflects to a degree of ‘intimacy’ which was ruptured during Colonial eras. The main finding is Malay royal town does obey the urban design principle of an ‘intimacy’ and ‘walkability’. The ‘intimacy index’ for historical Malay city are as follow; distance from palace to; Masjid (160 meter), Padang/open spaces (120 meter), settlement (300 meter), market (220 meter) and aristocrat houses (60 meter). This finding can be used as a guidelines for the preparation of the developing the future city. 2018-12-03 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/69345/1/inherit_present.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/69345/7/69345_Historical%20Intimacy%20in%20Malay%20urban%20core%20-%20abstract.pdf Ibrahim, Illyani and Abdul Latip, Nurul Syala and Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen and Harun, Nor Zalina (2018) Historical "intimacy" in Malay urban core configurations - a comparative analysis. In: The International Heritage and Cultural Conservation Conference (InHerit 2018), 3rd-5th Dec. 2018, Kuching, Sarawak. (Unpublished)
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description	This paper focuses on analysis of the historical pre-colonial configurations of a series of urban cores in Malay sites along the Selat Melaka. The objective of this research is to identify the pattern and variations of each pre-colonial royal town from the perspective of urban design principle such as "intimacy" and "walkability" which can affect and reduce, long-term sustainable parameters in tropical cities such as ‘urban heat island'. While this traditional character is increasingly disappearing due to modern urbanization, the difficulty is related to the degree of organic character or randomness in the past layout of these traditional urban cores. It argues that such configurations reflects to a degree of ‘intimacy’ which was ruptured during Colonial eras. The main finding is Malay royal town does obey the urban design principle of an ‘intimacy’ and ‘walkability’. The ‘intimacy index’ for historical Malay city are as follow; distance from palace to; Masjid (160 meter), Padang/open spaces (120 meter), settlement (300 meter), market (220 meter) and aristocrat houses (60 meter). This finding can be used as a guidelines for the preparation of the developing the future city.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ibrahim, Illyani Abdul Latip, Nurul Syala Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen Harun, Nor Zalina
author_facet	Ibrahim, Illyani Abdul Latip, Nurul Syala Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen Harun, Nor Zalina
author_sort	Ibrahim, Illyani
title	Historical "intimacy" in Malay urban core configurations - a comparative analysis
title_short	Historical "intimacy" in Malay urban core configurations - a comparative analysis
title_full	Historical "intimacy" in Malay urban core configurations - a comparative analysis
title_fullStr	Historical "intimacy" in Malay urban core configurations - a comparative analysis
title_full_unstemmed	Historical "intimacy" in Malay urban core configurations - a comparative analysis
title_sort	historical "intimacy" in malay urban core configurations - a comparative analysis
publishDate	2018
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/69345/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/69345/1/inherit_present.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/69345/7/69345_Historical%20Intimacy%20in%20Malay%20urban%20core%20-%20abstract.pdf
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