A. The Shaping of Riung Mungpulung and Alun-alun
- Salakanagara (1st AD)
- Majapahit empire (12th AD)
B. Later Development of Alun-alun, and Riung Mungpulung as Locality
- Dutch colonization (17th AD)
- Old Order (1945 - 1967)
- New Order (1967 - 1998)
The long term historical situation in Asia shows a powerful resistance by imperial powers to any other kind of political organization that might have arisen as a viable or powerful alternatives.
The empire come and go, but the imperial mode of government remains the only viable system.~Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-wei Yeo~
In Southeast Asia, where many of the earliest experiments in modern urbanism were made, the relative weakness or even absence of a critical or democratic tradition drastically alters the development and the structure of urban space. ~Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-wei Yeo~