The Transformation of Javanese Cities Cosmological Concept: Banten the Maritime City in XV-XVIII Century

The era of Islamization, Maritime and Political power in the XV century encouraged the birth of the City of Banten. All three provide opportunities for the emergence of new knowledge about strategies and how to build a City based on past knowledge on completely different contexts and correlations. Hence the need for transformation and adaptation. During the era of Javanese Indianization - from the 4th to the 15th centuries, city states in inland Java departed from the tradition of Hindu-Buddhist cosmological concepts [1]. The Indianization / influence of Indian culture -which is actually a culture of continental society, is of course actually different anthropologically and geographically from the culture of island communities such as Java. The momentum of this change seems to awaken the Javanese people about the real reality that shapes them. A new consciousness, which is expressed in the design of a city-state, certainly requires a complete form of power. Banten (at that time also known as Bantam), was the culmination of achieving the transformation of the concept of urban design tradition at that time. This city managed to become a phenomenal trading port in its time