This paper explains how human perceives threshold space and its effect on spatial experience in urban contexts in Jakarta. Threshold space provides the key to the transition and connection between areas with different territorial claims. This makes the threshold space an interesting condition to see the correlation between interior and exterior spaces. This paper will focus on the threshold space formed between the commercial area and pedestrian paths in Senopati area, Jakarta. In this paper, we will analyze how threshold space eliminating the sharp division between interior of commercial buildings and exterior spaces (pedestrian paths) in order to present continuous spatial experience between two different spaces in selected urban area. This research is conducted using Boettger’s method and its six elements to analyze threshold space. This research found that a different arrangement and completeness of elements in threshold space will produce different spatial patterns.

This study investigates the relationship between the permeability of building frontages and female pedestrians’perceptions of safety on the sidewalk. A case study is conducted in two commercial streets with different settings in the Blok M area, Jakarta. Perceived meanings are evoked by the elements of the urban environments, which then form a subjective perception that differs due to several factors, including gender. Women in developing countries tend to exhibit more fear and insecurity in public places. Therefore, considerations that create a sense of security and safety for women in public places are essential. Natural surveillance, also known as the eyes on the street strategy, can improve one’s safety perception and is often triggered by a range of functions along the street, especially the ground floor and also an active building frontage. Permeability is one of the key features of an active building frontage that supports natural surveillance and a safe urban experience. Permeability differs according to the building’s uses and can be identified both physically and visually. The expected results suggest that permeability, through its openness and its transparency, can create a safe walking experience for female pedestrians in an urban context.

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How do we reveal hidden structures within a complicated web of social interactions? How can we explain the complex nexus of relationships in a public space? In this paper, we offer a different perspective on urban structures by using a multi-layer perspective to understand the structure of space that emerges from the complex uses of spaces. We particularly benefit from the concept of nesting as the theoretical lens in our research. We use a popular urban leisure space in Jakarta as a case study: The Hotel Indonesia (HI) Roundabout during Car Free Day Sunday events. We reveal that within this particular event, there are nested smaller events. The nesting structure also demonstrates how events and activities overlap within a single setting. The nesting approach provides us with a chance to seek an alternative structure for urban spaces.

This paper attempts to reveal relations among actors at urban public spaces. We examined the relations by exploring activities of the urban society in picnic activity. In studying the relations among actors we use the actor -network theory Latour (2007). We conducted data collection strategy such as drifting from psychogeography Debord (1955Debord ( , 1992 and bodily experience Pallasmaa (2012). The findings are the relations among actors within picnic activities in urban spaces shows a different kind of relations. The exploration of picnic activities on urban space shows us the relationships among users, events, spaces defines a variety of changes in the function of urban spaces.