Abstract

Malay urbanization is one of the oldest urbanization in the human history. Traditional Malay also refers to the Malay races which full of custom, heritage, and also full with decency values while Traditional Malay City refers to the Malay City which establish before the British colonial era. Traditional Malay City have their own way of socioeconomic aspect without adapting the Western influence. The formation of the Malay settlement and Malay Traditional Cities has their own uniqueness and specialty in terms of social life and integration between the land uses and building. Rapid development and uses of geographic information system as a tool in urban planning nowadays have pushed the GIS technique further in visualization and presentation of urban planning data. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to study on the formation and constructing the existing Traditional Malay city.