Theme: Access to Public Space

The unexpected power of informal workers in the public square: A comparison of Mexican and U.S. organizing models

Abstract: Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face...

Informal Cities and the Contestation of Public Space: The Case of Bogotá’s Street Vendors

The multiple sites of urban governance: Insights from an African city

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Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

Street Vendors and Cities

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

Informal Traders and Planners in the Regeneration of Historic City Centres: The Case of Quito, Ecuador

A major reason for the regeneration of historic city centres in developing countries is the possibility of benefiting from the growing mobility...

Disabling governance: Privatisation of city markets and implications for vendors‟ associations in Kampala, Uganda

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Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration, and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat

Exploring how the policy of protection of indigenous people works on the ground in Pasighat, a town in Arunachal Pradesh, this paper brings...

Dislocating modernity: Identity, space and representations of street trade in Durban, South Africa

South Africa’s cities have experienced dramatic changes over the past decade. Cities are now home to a multiracial population, and have been...

Redemption – The Documentary

From the documentary’s website: “They are New York City’s gleaners – struggling at the edge of our society. You see them on almost...