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Citizen's place : the state's creation of public space and street vendor's culture of informality in Bogotá, Colombia

Citizen's place : the state's creation of public space and street vendor's culture of informality in Bogotá, Colombia
Activity space ; Ambulant vendor ; Bogotá ; Citizenship ; Colombia ; Informal sector ; Place ; Policy ; Public space ; Urban area
by ambulant vendors, and the solution as the relocation of vendors to spatially marginalized markets. This relocation may produce new forms of segregation in which citizens and street vendors have differenciated places and rights to mobility.

Negotiating streets for all in urban transport planning : the case for pedestrians, cyclists and street vendors in Nairobi, Kenya

Negotiating streets for all in urban transport planning : the case for pedestrians, cyclists and street vendors in Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya ; Nairobi ; Pedestrians ; Street ; Urban economy ; Urban life ; Urban planning ; Urban transport

Informal work on the streets of Vienna : the foreign newspaper vendors in Les communautés étrangères en Europe.

Informal work on the streets of Vienna : the foreign newspaper vendors in Les communautés étrangères en Europe.

Revanchist urbanism heads south : the regulation of indigenous beggars and street vendors in Ecuador

Revanchist urbanism heads south : the regulation of indigenous beggars and street vendors in Ecuador

Street vendor livelihoods and everyday politics in Hanoi, Vietnam : the seeds of a diverse economy?

Street vendor livelihoods and everyday politics in Hanoi, Vietnam : the seeds of a diverse economy?
Ambulant vendor ; Legislation ; Living conditions ; Neo liberalism ; Role of the State ; Social control ; Social geography ; Subsistence economy ; Urban economy ; Vietnam

Whose paradise ? itinerant street vendors' individual and collective practices of political agency in the tourist streets of Cusco, Peru

Whose paradise ? itinerant street vendors' individual and collective practices of political agency in the tourist streets of Cusco, Peru
Conflict ; Gender ; Income ; Legislation ; Mobilisation ; Neighbourhood ; Peru ; Social geography ; Street vendors ; Tourism ; Urban economy

Marketing in Latin America: a photo essay

Vignettes crafted around 20 photographs taken in Latin America of different marketing arrangments: traditional village markets selling produce, public markets in cities; informal vendors; centers of wholesale distribution; neighborhood shops
; pedestrian downtown streets; North American-style shopping centers. - (DWG)

Do micro enterprises benefit from the ‘Doing Business’ reforms? the case of street-vending in Tanzania

Do micro enterprises benefit from the ‘Doing Business’ reforms? the case of street-vending in Tanzania
Credit ; Family ; Informality ; Legislation ; Livelihood ; Reform ; Remittances ; Social geography ; Street vendors ; Tanzania ; Urban economy ; Vulnerability
of this optimistic position reflected a disappointing reality. Findings were that the experiences of vendors have been overwhelmingly negative, remaining seemingly untouched by the multiple policy initiatives attempting to improve their business environment. Instead
, vendors have become more marginalised in the eyes of policy-makers and administrators and in turn, therefore, more vulnerable to prosecution under a range of acts, and to formalization approaches which undermine their prospects as small businesses.

After the 1997 financial crisis in Bangkok : the behaviour and implications of a new cohort of street vendors

After the 1997 financial crisis in Bangkok : the behaviour and implications of a new cohort of street vendors
Bangkok ; Behaviour ; Economic sector ; Enquiry ; Informal sector ; Retail trade ; Street vendors ; Thailand ; Urban administration

From revanchism to ambivalence : the changing politics of street vending in Guangzhou

From revanchism to ambivalence : the changing politics of street vending in Guangzhou
China ; Guangdong ; Guangzhou ; Livelihood ; Public space ; Social exclusion ; Social geography ; Spatial exclusion ; Street vendors ; Urban policy
By focusing on Guangzhou's street-vending policy transformation, this article explores how exclusionary practices of urban politics in China are undermined by those who it seeks to exclude and the progressive political climate that questions

A New Delhi every day : multiplicities of governance regimes in a transforming metropolis

Accessibility ; Governance ; India ; Informality ; Large city ; Legislation ; Market ; Retail trade ; Role of the State ; Street vendors ; Urban area
This article shows how the everyday governance of urban space in three very different areas of Delhi is determined by relations among non-state actors. These regimes foster access to space for street hawkers on an everyday basis while they allow
potential of these regimes should not be overstated, they do offer street hawkers limited contingency to improve their access to urban space.

Women, urban life, and the city images in Tijuana, Mexico

Reviews how gentrification in Tijuana has affected three marginal groups of working women : prostitutes, factory workers in maquiladoras, and street vendors. Author also weighs the gendered representations of women in Tijuana and of the city. Each

Play for protest, protest for play : artisan and vendors' resistance to displacement in Mexico City

Play for protest, protest for play : artisan and vendors' resistance to displacement in Mexico City
Decision making process ; Handicrafts ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Neighbourhood ; Social geography ; Street vendors ; Tourism policy ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal

Milk distribution by pushcart vendors in Kingston, Jamaica

Milk distribution by pushcart vendors in Kingston, Jamaica
Pushcart vendors plan an important role in the distribution of milk in Kingston. Competition with formal distribution outlets, however, is limited. Pushcart sending developed recently and the vendors concentrate their activities at the commercial

Bedroht, verdrängt und doch gebraucht. Der mobile Kleinhandel mit Nahrungsmitteln in der indischen Metropole Hyderabad

. In the emerging mega city of Hyderabad the street vendors increasingly feel the strain of urban renewal practices due to economic liberalisation and globalisation processes. This article starts by providing an overview on recent trends in the metropolitan food
In urban India street food contributes considerably to the food security of the poor and lower middle class strata. Furthermore roadside vending and hawking provides income-opportunities for a large number of low-skilled city dwellers
insight into the dimensions, structures, problems and conflicts of Hyderabad´s street food vending sector. - (IfL)

New faces of poverty in Ghana. Special issue

and improving the livelihoods of the poor. Some include female porters, stone cutters, street vendors, Buruli ulcer patients, and HIV/AIDS orphans. They have taken on new dimensions as a result of informalisation of the labour market. Eleven articles.

Resilience refused. Wasted potentials for improving food security in Dhaka

In this article, we look at the people who made Dhaka’s food system resilient enough to avoid catastrophe. We discuss three relevant actor groups – food traders in wholesale markets, street food vendors, and poor consumers – and investigate

Negotiating public space for livelihoods : about risks, uncertainty and power in the urban poor’s everyday life

Bangladesh ; Dhaka ; Institution ; Livelihood ; Local market ; Power ; Public space ; Risk ; Social geography ; Street vendors ; Urban area ; Vulnerability

Missing the point? Urban planning and the normalisation of ‘pathological’ spaces in southern Africa

Africa ; Central Africa ; Informality ; Livelihood ; Planning ; South Africa ; Street vendors ; Urban economy ; Urban planning

Hawkers and vendors: dualism in Southeast Asia

Hawkers and vendors: dualism in Southeast Asia

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