Access to Public Space

Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Centro-Oeste)

Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez   Relatórios sobre outras regiões: Nordeste NorteSudeste Sul ...

The unexpected power of informal workers in the public square: A comparison of Mexican and U.S. organizing models

Abstract: Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face...

Trabalhadores de Rua em São Paulo

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

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

Waste Pickers and Cities

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.  

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....

Waste management and the workplace

Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration, and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat

Exploring how the policy of protection of indigenous people works on the ground in Pasighat, a town in Arunachal Pradesh, this paper brings...

Street Vendors and Cities

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.