Theme: Access to Public Space

Informal Work and the Social Function of the City: A Framework for Legal Reform in the Urban Environment

The New Urban Agenda envisages cities and human settlements that fulfil their social function. But what is a city’s “social function”? And...

Street Traders and the Emerging Spaces for Urban Voice and Citizenship in African Cities

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Seeing from the South: Refocusing urban planning on the globe’s central urban issues

Securing Livelihoods: A Gendered Analysis of Support Interventions available to Street Traders in the Durban Metropolitan Area

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...

Resisting the Entrepreneurial City: Street Vendors’ Struggle in Mexico City’s Historic Center

Recent work on entrepreneurial urban governance has focused on the new forms of exclusion produced by neoliberal entrepreneurial urban strategies,...

Street vending in urban India: The struggle for recognition

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Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly

Street Vendors and Cities

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

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