Street Vendors & Market Traders

Street Traders and their Organisations in South Africa

From the booklet, “The main aim of the research and booklet is to help build strong local and national organisations so that street...

Informal Commerce: Expansion and Exclusion in the Historic Centre of the Latin American City

Informal commerce, characterized by market and street trading activities, thrives in the central areas of many Latin American cities. Focusing...

Financial Accessibility of the Street Vendors in India: Cases of Inclusion and Exclusion

From the Executive Summary: “Street vendors are one of the most marginalised, poor as well as vulnerable sectors of the urban informal...

Ambulantes e Direito à Cidade

Street Vendors and the Right to the City is also available in English.

“We Are Good at Surviving”: Street Hustling in Addis Ababa’s Inner CityUrban Forum

Abstract: Recent studies of the informal economy have tried to understand how the politics of informal actors and their attempts at organizing...

Informal Urbanism in the USA: New Challenges for Theory and PracticePlanning Theory and Practice

Devlin describes the case of immigrant food vendors in an area of Brooklyn and how as they became more popular with better off New Yorkers...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Greater Monrovia

Displacement and the New Spaces for Informal Trade in the Latin American City Centre

Using evidence from Cusco, Peru, the paper examines the effects of the planned displacement of informal traders from city-centre streets....

Street Trade in Kenya: The Contribution of Research in Policy Dialogue and Response

Paper for panel entitled “Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, ...

Street Vendors in the Global Urban Economy

Volume 5, Number 1. January – June 2011