Typology of Urban Hawker's Location Preferences

AbstractUrban street vendors, known as Pedagang Kaki Lima (PKL) in Surakarta, have undergone series of structuring strategies in the form of relocation and stabilization. The general objective of this paper is to formulate typology of PKL locations in Surakarta. The typology formulated took into account the factors corresponding to the location and the characters of PKL. Data collection were done through mapping PKL in Surakarta and generated the distribution patterns, as well as giving questionnaires to PKL in order to understand the character of its activities. Characters of PKL that has similarity can be grouped into a single homogeneous typology. This stage of analysis used spatial observation techniques to examine the map and crosstab, later used descriptive technique to bring each types to its meaning. PKL of Surakarta can be divided into five groups based on its commodities. Typology of locational behaviour were defined by several variables, i.e. whether the location were move towards specific landuse or settle in one specific location, whether grouped with similar commodities or tend to be mingled with various commodities, and whether customer oriented or not