STUDI PENENTUAN KAWASAN KONSERVASI KOTA KUDUS MELALUI PENDEKATAN MORFOLOGI KOTA

Abstract

Kudus, as one of the city where Islam growth in Java have many Islamic historical heritage. It makes Kudus has historical potention is tangible and intangible heritage that needs to be conserved, because its histories shown the process of city establishing. But the government never considered this historical places, they bild new building by destroying the old one that actually have the histories. This development make changes in visual and physical of the city. Unidentified conserved area is one of the causes of this destruction. Some alternative ways to solve the problem is by identifying the area that have concervation potential and integrating the historical artifacts with the urban activity today that be realized by urban conservation. Conservation also doing by identifying the urban morphology that created in Kudus city. This reasearch done to determine the areas in Kudus city that have potential to be conservated by urban morphology approach. Based on the characteristic and historical development taped by the Islamic city. To reach that ponit, urban morphology identifying done by analyzing city development historical and urban pattern totality using descriptive qualitative analysis. The results of this research is the potential areas to be conservated in Kudus has been identified based on analysis that have been done before.