Land-use in Sukabumi, West Java; Persistence and change

In his earlier work on the nature of the Southeast Asian city McGee tried to apply models of land-use which had been developed specifically with reference to the western city (McGee 1969:126-133).Such models, based on sectoral and concentric principles, and modified to take account of the cultural milieu of the region, were believed to provide at least a provisional descriptive framework which could serve as a starting-point for systematic analysis.Later work by other writers, and even by McGee himself, has tended to follow a different approach.Instead of trying to establish a framework which is intrinsically spatial, an attempt has been made to demonstrate how socio-economic characteristics of a society as a whole are translated into spatial forms (McGee 1974 and 1976;Santos 1975).Land-use therefore is seen to reflect not only the spatial exigencies of the functioning of society, but also political forces, class differentiation, the structure of land tenure, and the response to developing technology.An analysis of land, its ownership, transmission, and use, can serve as a map of social and economic relationships, reflecting the interplay and opposition of structural and spatial factors (Benda Beckmann 1979).Such a map, of course, is not static.In the short term, population growth and the vicissitudes of the economy may introduce an element of dynamism into the urban landscape.The built-up area may extend, intensify, or experience changes that reflect technological changes in society as a whole.Nevertheless, through these changes a certain permanence may be manifested.The imprint of class relationships or ethnic divisions may remain strongly embedded in the landscape of the town, at least as long as these divisions remain important for that society.And in some cases the urban imprint of social class and the political dimension may survive the demise of the society which nurtured it, though perhaps in a modified form

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