Kampung space and Putrajaya

Abstract

The kampung is the traditional form of urban settlement of the Malay world. In its origins it is low density, semi-rural, exhibiting high levels of self- sufficiency and various levels of subsistence production and economy. The process of urban growth was typically by the accretion of kampung around expanding colonial trading and administrative towns. The paper considers the metamorphoses of the kampung form in Jakarta, Surabaya and Kuala Lumpur and the political issues that have accompanied those transformations. The new Malaysian administrative capital of Putrajaya has turned principally to Middle East imagery and, to a lesser extent, American Art Deco "Revival to represent ideas of a Mala..