Social and physical processes in production of urban public spaces case: Development of RPTRAs in East Jakarta
Abstract Public spaces in the big city of Jakarta are decreasing from year to year due to the ever expanding physical development. However, since 2015 until October 2019 290 RPTRA units had been built in DKI Jakarta where previously public spaces have not been paid much attention to and have always been defeated by more commercial developments. The objectives of this study are to find what structuring forces affect, who actors were involved in the production of those public spaces, and how they affect physical public spaces at all stages of physical life cycle in different RPTRAs. For those objectives this study used an analytical framework of institutionalist understanding and used descriptive qualitative descriptive approach and chose 4 RPTRAs in East Jakarta as case studies. The results of case studies show there are the structuring forces and the different actors operating in each RPTRA but what are structuring forces and who are the actors are relatively the same in each RPTRA. The results of this study suggest that urban design practitioners need to have greater understanding of the social processes guiding the production of public spaces and need to incorporate such understanding into their practice.