Transformation of Kuthagara: Continuity and Change in Yogyakarta Heritage City

Heritage Cities today take advantage of the status of UNESCO’s world heritage property and its strategies of conservation. Since these cities experience substantial urban transformations, especially as an object of urban tourism, changes are a substantial part. One of the focuses of the 2011 UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape recommendation is the management of change. However, the management of change in recent times needs to reassess how changes were handled in the past to be learned. Yogyakarta, one of the major heritage cities in Indonesia, has a similar phenomenon. The transformation of the heritage city of Yogyakarta is the case to be observed. The paper tried to reveal continuity and changes in the transformation of Yogyakarta’s Kuthagara which defines Yogyakarta Heritage City today, as the act of management of change. The methodology was urban morphological analysis and grounded theory analysis. The result reveals that although the Kuthagara has survived changes and maintained its cultural continuity, the dynamic changes from economic and cultural forces need to be managed further through the Historic Urban Landscape approach