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    Informal Cities and the Contestation of Public Space: The Case of Bogotá’s Street Vendors, 1988—2003Urban Studies

    The resurgence of informal street trading poses serious challenges for local officials responsible for the maintenance of public space. This...

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    A new generation of Bangkok Street vendors: Economic crisis as opportunity and threatCities

    In 1997, the financial crisis seriously damaged the Thai economy and led to the closing of many companies. Previously, it had been believed...

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  • Research Reports

    Supporting Informal Livelihoods in Public Space: A Toolkit for Local Authorities

    This toolkit is designed to assist city officials and other local authorities to adopt an inclusive approach to managing public space that...

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    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,...

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  • Research Reports

    People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City

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

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  • Research Reports

    A Census of Street Vendors in eThekwini Municipality

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  • Journal Articles

    The contested spatialities of transnational activism: gendered gatekeeping and gender struggles in an African association of informal workers

    Abstract:

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    Street Vendor Livelihoods and Everyday Politics in Hanoi, Vietnam: The Seeds of a Diverse Economy?

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    Durban Workers Unite to Defend Street Traders’ Livelihoods’

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  • Research Reports

    Enfrentando a Crise: Recessão Persistente,Inflação Crescente, e a Força de Trabalho Informal (Sumário Executivo)

    Report available in English here. Relatório disponível em português aqui. Informe disponible en español aquí.  

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