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Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies

By , on February 05, 2014

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 developments and discussions on vendor rights and regulation underscore important socio-political and economic changes and concerns around the role of the informal economy in this country. As more of China’s rural poor enter urban areas and turn to the streets to survive, the number of unlicensed vendors has risen and municipal efforts at increased regulation and enforcement of street vending licensure have been enacted.

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Bell, Jonathan S., and Anastasia, Loukaitou S. Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies. , , . , 2014. Bell, J. S., and Anastasia, L. S. (2014). Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies. , , . Bell, Jonathan S., and Anastasia, Loukaitou S. "Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies." 2014, .Bell Jonathan S., and Anastasia Loukaitou S. "Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies." (2014). Bell, J S, and Anastasia, L S 2014, 'Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies', , , . Jonathan S Bell, and Loukaitou S Anastasia, 'Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies' (2014). Bell J. S., and Anastasia L. S. Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies. . 2014. Bell, Jonathan S., and Anastasia, Loukaitou S. Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies. . 2014. , .

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