Occupational Group: Street Vendors & Market Traders

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...

“The Poor Also Must Live!” Market Demolition, Gentrification and the Quest for Survival in Lagos State

Report on demolition of traditional open markets, as part of the State government programme to develop Lagos into a “mega city”. This...

StreetNet blog

This blog features news and events about StreetNet’s 3 on-going campaigns: 1) The New Manifesto Campaign 2) World Class Cities for...

Boletín Informativo de WIEGO para OBM abril 2012

Size and Significance of the Informal Economy

In many cities in developing countries, informal employment accounts for the majority of employment. Data analysis suggests that informal...

SEWA Newsletter No. 44

Contents:       Women’s menstrual cycles are a “plague” : Findings from a SEWA study     SEWA’s agricultural campaigns    ...