Abstract:
This study explores the urban problems that generated by street retailers. Like other big cities, in Bandung, one of theIndonesian big cities, there are more or less 32.000 street retailers. Some of them used their small kiosk as living space.They occupied illegaly almost the whole of pedestrian paths, open spaces, green belts, and other urban spaces. Bandungis like the great market place now, because almost all part of the city became a big market place. Using cross-tabulation and descriptive analysis of observated 407 samples, this study finds some unique phenomena ofthe changes of street retailer’s existence, which significant to be considered carefully by urban planner, urban designerand urban manager. Recently, the existence of street retailers almost in the whole urban areas became stronger. There are four phases of thestreet retailer’s existence in Bandung that manifested on their living space in urban area. First, the street retailer’s kiosks as an alternatif living space on survival phase of marginal society on their effort out of theeconomic-crisis. The second, transcendence prosess of change, from ‘survival-phase’ to ‘hidden power phase’. Third, escalation process of change, from ‘non-permanent of living space' to
