Street Vendors & Market Traders

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...

Using Administrative Law to Secure Informal Livelihoods: Lessons from South Africa

Although informal workers make up the broad base of the work force in many countries, legal frameworks often fail to protect and support...

Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

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The Struggle for the Streets: Processes of Exclusion and Inclusion of Street Traders in Durban, South Africa

Clandestine Geometries: Mapping Street Vending in Downtown São Paulo

Part II: The Making and Unmaking of a Model Market for Street Vendors

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

This paper provides an analysis of government budgets related to specific groups of informal workers in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the...

Chapter 3 – Different Sectors, Different Challenges

No Cushion to Fall Back On The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers

The research shows that informal enterprises and informal wage workers are affected in many of the same ways as formal firms and formal wage...

Informal Economic Strategies: Advocacy For Street Vendors In Brazil

This paper is an introduction to informal labor; the politico-territorial characteristics of street vendor commerce in the city of Sao Paolo;...