![]() This paper examines the Balinese traditional landscape and its role in encouraging tourism development that based on the Balinese culture and its ecology. Thus land associated with the city has been lost to the rapid development of this cultural landscape. Places such as Denpasar City are struggling with increasing population at a rate of 1.94% per year that is causing increase in housing and public facilities demanded by both residents and ex-patriates. These imperatives are creating the sprawl of building planning, development information, loss of open spaces, as well as the decline of the identity of cities. Urbanization, population growth, ribbon development, migration and consumption of energy are important imperatives and necessary evils for growing cities. It has become a national concern about the changes implicating Bali’s environment. Globalization is increasingly becoming one of the most important discussions amongst the Balinese people. Landscape planning is integral in this initiative of character defining the region. The implementation of this program includes attention to universal, societal and cultural values as unity indicators, of which the landscape planning of the Balinese characteristics and traditions cannot be separated. Despite this, the government is now supporting the program of “Bali toward Garden Island”, which aims to sustain the physical and cultural environment of the island towards conservation of its landscape. The conservation and maintenance of this traditional landscape is often forgotten because of government agendas to implement cultural city programs aimed at encouraging tourism development. The social condition of this society that is strongly characterized by religious beliefs, and its nature and ecology also supports this. Cultural Tourism is integral in Bali’s tourism industry providing the basic capital for development. The natural qualities of its mountains, lakes, rivers, rice terrace fields with subak irrigation make Bali an important tourism destination. Bali is internationally recognized as an island possessing a beautiful natural landscape as well as a unique culture. ![]()
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