Who's Own the Public Space?: The Adaptation of Limited Space in Arabic Kampong

Abstract

The privatization of public space has been an issue since ‘90 in America, when some people realize that public space is not so public. Jürgen Habermas defines that public space is considered to be that space to which citizens of a polity have access and enjoy free right of use [1], but on the other hand the ‘term’ of public became ambiguous. The development of the phenomenon has been trend among the planner. Hayden bringing up the ‘domestication of public space’[2], the other research was Anna Minton with the privatization of public space and there are some many research that conclude the public space (especially in the semi – public space) mostly have a individual or communal who's use the public space regularly as its own it. The Arabic kampong is a one of the cultural kampong in Surabaya. The pattern of the privatization of the public space, been an adaptation for their limited space. The non- existences of the large or massive public space in the area leave them with no options except to adapt with it.