Transit-Oriented development (TOD) nowadays is a key word for metropolitan development in an effort to enhance efficiency of inter-modal public transportation system as well as creation of multi-nucleus urban centers. The concept poses challenges when applied to developing countries where TOD development is catered for mid-income use of public transport and the low-income living closer to transport services for their daily commuting, which are cause for attraction as well as challenge to TOD capitalistic property investment. Knowledge on how to develop a TOD in developed countries may not be sufficient in dealing with the landscape of cities in developing country such as Indonesia where the rich and poor co-exist in dual system of formal and informal economy. In this regards contestation of TOD as urban centers may dislocate people from the center when planning is not in inclusive.