Theme: Access to Public Space

Street vending in urban India: The struggle for recognition

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Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly

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 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...

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.

Comercio ambulante en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México

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...