Street Vending
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Es lo de siempre. En las situaciones de crisis, lo más fácil, tanto para los poderes como para las mayorías sociales, es dirigir el foco acusador a los sectores más frágiles de la sociedad, que han de ver cómo a los abusos que sufren se... more
AN UNTENABLE STREET-LEVEL BUREAUCRACY Social workers facing the regulation of an informal economy In autumn 2009, a «scavenger square» was opened at the Porte Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement of Paris as an institutional response to... more
This research paper proposes that the administration of street vending in Bangkok is incompatible with both changes in the economic and social situation in Thailand and a significant growth in street vending around the world, reflecting a... more
One usual place for every usual or unusual people in our country is a tea-stall. It is the only place where people tend to concentrate on taking tea and gossiping; rather the place or the ambiance itself. Three tea-stalls (Tong) are taken... more
This paper contains information about the tea stalls of Bangladesh and the stall's owners. It discusses their day to day activities. What they do and how they do it. It also contains advice about improving their business by making several... more
Au cœur des marchés informels d’objets de récupération qui ont émergé sur les trottoirs du nord ouest de Paris depuis 2009, des inconnus parviennent à stabiliser suffisamment de confiance pour échanger. Ces échanges nouent des liens d’une... more
Flor works as street vendors, selling aromatic water, a kind of tea made from the infusion of different herbs and fruits. Because she only attended primary school, Flor had difficulties to find a job when she moved to the city. At the age... more
A large informal sector street vending is a prevailing and distinctive part of the economy of Bangladesh. A research was conducted to obtain insight into entrepreneurship development, employment and poverty reduction by the vendors of... more
Many historical cities have started deteriorating due to improper planning and the lack of political will to preserve its local identity. Urban growth centers have directed their development approaches towards profit-centric policies... more
Since Vietnam’s doi moi economic reforms were first implemented in the late 1980s, petty trading activities have reappeared and now flourish, gaining increasing visibility on the nation’s town and city streets. Today, mobile street... more
This study focuses on three things: (1) determine the computational techniques used by children engaged in vending; (2) determine the underlying math concepts within those identified techniques; and (3) describe the differences between... more
Street vending has for a long time posed a significant impact on Zambia’s economic activity as well as negatively affected the health and social security of many Zambians especially in the capital city Lusaka. The pronouncements of... more
Millions of people worldwide work outside the law as street vendors in order to earn a living. However, they often work in fear of police evictions and confiscations since their work is in many places considered illegal. In this context,... more
Este artigo parte das tensões envolvidas no processo de remoção do mercado de rua do centro de Porto Alegre/RS e sua realocação para um shopping popular. O “camelódromo”, como ficou conhecido o edifício que abriga mais de 800 lojas – de... more
Urban Street Vending (USV) has raised important issues and challenges for its management in India. USV straddles livelihood of the people at the vulnerable ‘bottom of the pyramid’ on one hand, and on the other, congestion and encroachment... more
The word ‘mega city’ redefines the city with population density also indicates several challenges which the city dwellers have to deal with on regular basis. Dhaka is a mega city that has been dealing with plentiful challenges. In recent... more
Street vending represents a vital and growing aspect of the urban informal economy that is often the subject of municipal regulatory efforts that seek to control, confine or extinguish it. In the People's Republic of China, recent... more
Ellen Martinali 2008. Literature study and theoretical framework as part of advisory research on how today's labour unions could reach out to informal workers.
The political evolution of Kampala under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has profoundly affected the fortunes of the city's street vendors. This article examines the effects of institutional changes brought about by the NRM's... more
A significant percentage of youth in urban Africa is employed in the informal sector. The informal sector is more accessible than the formal sector for people with low human and financial capital, such as youth migrants from rural areas.... more
For a large segment of the urban poor in Kampala, Uganda, street vending has long served as a key livelihood strategy in the absence of formal employment opportunities and a public social safety net. This article explores the effects of... more
The rise of “modern” markets is a growing trend in local economic development planning for the upgrading of central business areas in global South cities. However, these developments pose significant impacts for street vendors, who carry... more
Street commerce played an important role in the development and diffusion of cheap literary forms in Italy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Ordinary or everyday editions – books printed and reprinted without any major... more
Although practices of mobile street vendors might appear fleeting, they are not transient and without effect on the urban landscape. The spatial practices of street vending transform public spaces into markets by inscribing the vendors'... more
Street vending is a dynamic phenomenon of network of events, socio-economic and cultural factors while remaining a narration of place. At the metropolitan level, the narrative is negatively skewed towards street vending and its aesthetic... more
Built on empirical material from field study conducted between 2011 and 2014 and based on a qualitative methodology, this paper aims at highlighting the struggles for power within the appropriation of commercial streets inside two... more
Sales from door to door, on streets and at marketplaces (Austria 1918-1938) Please do not quote this paper without permission of the author. 1 " All the above analyses find a concrete illustration in the situation of certain petty... more
This pilot study was conducted to analyze the quality of the antimicrobials sold in the street markets in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A total of 258 packs containing antimicrobials were bought in 28 street markets in Port-au-Prince (Haiti).... more
Considering the critical positions regarding the normative ideal of public space, the objective of this special number and its introduction is to point out the central contradictions within the concept of public space as spatially placed... more
Street food vendors are a ubiquitous but controversial feature of Mexico City's foodscapes; in the context of urban renewal and modernization projects, vendors are frequently portrayed as backwards , dirty, and undesirable and are... more
Resumen La Rambla, una de las calles más famosas del mundo, es una vía peatonal en el corazón de la Barcelona histórica. Su trazo parte la Ciutat Vella en dos barrios, El Gótico y El Raval, tan distantes en origen social como cercanos... more
El comercio ambulante en la ciudad de México guarda una relación particular con el sistema político institucional en relación con otros países de América Latina, Asia y África, sin embargo no ha sido un tema suficientemente... more
22 (1) 2017 Nuevos municipalismos y conflicto urbano El mercadillo rebelde de Barcelona. Prácticas antidisciplinarias en la ciudad mercancía Horacio Espinosa Zepeda Observatori d’Antropologia del Conflicte Urbà (OACU) Resum Desde... more