Sistem maklumat geografi dalam penentuan pemeliharaan kawasan warisan; kajian kes: Bandar Taiping, Perak

Abstract

Urban conservation is not just seen as a heritage building only, but also the factors that influence the building that should also be considered so that any changes in any part of the urban will not change the urban fabrics. Therefore, the relationship between heritage buildings with other planning information can be seen in creating integrated area conservation plan. The aim of this research is to analyze the Geography Information System’s application in upgrading the existing information together with the urban heritage information in developing an integrated area conservation plan. Geography Information System was chosen as tools because of its significant data manipulation, higher efficiency in generate many alternative scenario and accessible to the data. The data of heritage building and planning information will be the basic in the stage of designing the heritage databases for Taiping. The design of the databases will be consider all needs in area conservation. There are two type of analysis model designed based on the integrated conservation actions. The first model is about to determination the threat area and need for conservation. The factors that be considered for this analysis consist land use, visual and location factors. While the second model analysis is about the action control for building conservation that consists of the history, architectural style and building condition to ensure the appropriate history action through the conservation heritage building. The final output for this research is the area conservation management plan with the proposal of conservation guidelines for the specific area conservation in Bandar Taiping. This output where is area and building conservation plan could help the local authority to determine the suitable conservation for their administrative area.