KARAKTERISTIK AKTIVITAS PEDAGANG KAKI LIMA PADA KAWASAN KOMERSIAL DI PUSAT KOTA Studi Kasus: Simpang Lima, Semarang

Abstract

Abstrak The characteristic of street vendors in Simpang Lima should be recognized. It is connected with spatial region’s activity so that both of the formal and informal activities can exists harmonically. The characteristics of the street food vendors activity are follows: the activity space (street vendor’s trading location is at the mall/office/ school/mosque/ in Pancasila square and they are selling in the sidewalk at the edge of the Pancasila square); their distribution pattern is agglomeration; they are more settle; their activities (type of food/beverage, accessories, clothing, grocery, cigarettes, and their facilities are tent, wagon, carpet, table/rack; the time of street vendors trading is following the formal activities of the region; goals and motivations of visitor’s vendors is that most of them are visiting street vendors, and the motivational visits are to buy food/drinks and other types of merchandise). Key word : street vendors, the space for street vendor's activity, street vendor activity