The Importance of Cultural Heritage Conservation in Society: A Review and Prospect for Future Cities, with Bandar Lampung as Cased Study

This paper introduces the special feature of cultural heritage documentation; conservation and society entitled “The Importance of Cultural Heritage Conservation in Society”. The Netherlands Indies Government developed a cultural heritage in 1778 after establishment of Bataviaasch Genootschapvan Kunsten en Wetenschappen and De Outdheidkundige Diest at 1913 – 1928 in Lampung Region. Cultural heritage draw from a theory based in living system, developing strategies both for adopting impact and mitigation those threats by sustaining building and natural environment. Cities like Bandar Lampung are high complex living organism and are subjects to continue transformation produced by the requirement that vary from multi-ethnic of community, the political, economical, cultural and above all changing climate factored. All of factors are able to maintain normative developmental task that occur at various stage of live in the future. However, the preliminary problem of developing future cities in Bandar Lampung is related to existing social condition of modern society, which threatens the existence of local social community. We must prevent the loss of cultural heritage, through conservation and coordination of counterterrorism. To overcome this shortage, we need understanding factors affecting issue, including neighbourhood characteristic such as socio economic factor, residential pattern, social value, and stressful life events and insufficient resources. This paper investigate paradigm the role of cultural heritage conservation in society and become an important approach in develop innovation in both architecture and urban design. With present paper we aim to increase the awareness of learning cultural diversity form cultural heritage conservation and re interpreting them in establishment of urban system strategies for future cities.