Peta Jakarta | 1980

, which illustrate the drastic reduction in vegetation and the rise of built-up areas.

Unlike the chaotic, laissez-faire growth of earlier decades, the 1980s introduced state-led, high-modernist planning. The city was being physically sculpted to project an image of progress. The "Peta Jakarta 1980" reflects a transition from a colonial town to a nascent global city. It was a decade defined by the creation of the —the business district of Kuningan, Sudirman, and Rasuna Said—which turned the city center from a government administrative hub into a commercial powerhouse. Peta Jakarta 1980

: Maps from this period show a significant loss of green space. In 1965, green areas covered 35% of the city; by the time the 1980s progressed, this number was in steep decline as residential and industrial complexes took over. 2. The Origins of Land Subsidence , which illustrate the drastic reduction in vegetation