Stakeholder involvement in developing strategic planning for heritage buildings in Kota Lama heritage site, Semarang

Abstract

Abstract Heritage buildings are one of the main concerns in urban development planning and they consequently affect the building code as well. Such concerns were found in many redevelopment projects in a sizeable number of countries aside from Europe and Asia. Strategies, decisions, ways and dilemmas were approached and other points were used as lessons for other projects with similar or even quite different contexts and sizes worldwide. Although Semarang has a specific regulation that protects its heritage buildings, the awareness of the local government and people is still not adequate. This research showed that strategic planning was that was implemented in heritage buildings in some other countries made the buildings become more useful and conserve their authentic value. By studying different cases from different countries, this paper also presented the strategies in regards to heritage building. Suggested also in this paper, that stakeholder’s involvement is crucial in decision-making process.