Streets are public spaces where people pass through in going from one place to another. As such, streets are not supposed to be dwelling places. However, rapid urbanization has ushered in problems on housing, livelihood, and basic social facilities and services, giving rise to informal settlements and street living in cities. In Cebu City (a highly urbanized city in Central Philippines), displacement from urban slums as well as, lack of livelihood options have pushed some people to dwell on the streets and sidewalks in sites most visited by foreign and local tourists. Through street ethnography, this research uncovers how street dwellers in a heritage site in downtown Cebu City came to live and make a living here. The findings point to the fact that street dwellers have socially constructed and purposely transformed heritage spaces into places where they do their daily domestic routines as well as livelihood activities, in order to survive. This article posits that placemaking by these street dwellers in this heritage site is a process from entering and integrating into the place, appropriating specific spaces into places with meanings for them, building and maintaining social networks, contesting notions of the place, and developing a street culture over time.

街道是人们从一个地方到另一个地方经过的公共空间。因此，街道不应该是居住的地方。然而，快速的城市化进程带来了住房、生计、基本社会设施和服务方面的问题，导致了城市中的非正规住区和街头生活。在宿雾市（菲律宾中部高度城市化的城市），由于城市贫民窟的流离失所以及缺乏生计选择，一些人不得不住在外国和当地游客最常去的地方的街道和人行道上。通过街头民族志，这项研究揭示了宿雾市中心一处遗产地的街头居民是如何在这里生活和谋生的。研究结果表明，街头居民为了生存而社会性地建造并有目的地将遗产空间转变为他们进行日常家庭事务和生计活动的地方。本文认为，这些街道居民在该遗址中的场所营造是一个从进入场所并融入场所，将特定空间分配到对他们有意义的场所，建立和维护社交网络，对场所概念提出质疑和发展街道的过程。随着时间的推移文化。