THE TRANSFORMATION FROM RESIDENTIAL TO COMMERCIAL SPACE TOWARDS DYNAMIC SPACE FORMATION IN CENTRAL JAKARTA

Abstract

This research was conducted to examine dynamic space formation using urban space converts from housing to Small and Medium-size Enterprise (SME) commercial space in the street corridors of major cities in Indonesia. The study is necessary due to the rapid increase in population, observed to be affecting the urban socio-economic and physical aspects as evident with the sporadic growth of small and medium businesses in potential locations of urban street corridors where many plots of land for residential space have converted for commercial activities. The driving factors include business climate change, global economic crisis, democratic development, and decentralization of the economic sector. In depth field research was conducted concerning the changes in space use in Bendungan Hilir area of Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta as a sample. Deductive thinking with purposive strata area sampling and natural settings without manipulating the subjects studied were applied as the methods. Meanwhile, data were collected quantitatively and qualitatively from one collector street corridor in the residential area observed to have shifted and changed to an SME commercial area. The results, therefore, showed a dynamic pattern of commercial activity leading to a "spatial democracy" pattern.