Public Agencies Engagement on Heritage Building in Bandung Shopping Street: Intervening the Visible

This paper describes an example of public agencies engagement in reusing heritage buildings for shopping activities in Bandung. Creative industries in the fashion and culinary have increased the uses of heritage buildings for economic activities. These activities have an impact to physical changes in those heritage buildings. Since the agencies involved have different interest and goals, buildings are transformed to new style of architecture in a varied way. By this transformation, sense of place and values of cultural heritage of the area has disappeared. The case study is the well-known Dago and Riau Street, where a lot of buildings are listed by the Bandung heritage. This research applies descriptive method in analyzing public engagement in the place making in some heritage buildings. Agency theory is applied to examine the involvement of institution and stakeholder in regulating the transformation of heritage buildings. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.