Konsep Saged: Spirit Arsitektur Kota Kecil

The practice of designing cities in Indonesia tends to adopt concepts and theories (particularly nonnative theories) from foreign countries. Such conditions are due to the paucity of concept development as well as urban architecture theory (descriptive and nonnative). The study aims to fonnulate a descriptive theory in architecture of the city developed from taking meaning toward architectural phenomenon and characteristics exist in the living dynamics of seven small cities in Yogyakarta. Geometric and functional spatial characteristics resemble the existance of urban space as an city architecture phenomenon understood through characteristics of urban fonn and space based on quantitative and graphical analysis towards volume, concentration, as well as the spread of physical components and activities through observational means. The substantial concept concerning city location, dwelling, economic space, social space, and physical space was fonnulated from the meaning taken from the phenomenon of product transaction and exchange between regions, residential locations, business locations, indigenous inhabitant and visitor interactions, role of urban facilities and infrastructure, and architecture of the buildings through an inductive-qualitativephenomenological analysis towards units of infonnation explored through an unstructred in-depth interview. Intensive analysis is perfonned towards the geometric and functional space characteristics as well as the substantive concepts, therefore allowing the fonnulation of a theory of small city architecture that constitutes the spatial engineering entity constructed by the superior power of "saged