Street vendors' self-help strategies highlight cities' neglect of how the other half survive
- Written by Redento B. Recio, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Informal Urbanism (InfUr-) Hub, University of Melbourne
While street vendors work in plain sight, they are "off the map" in the eyes of city officials and planners.Redento Recio, Author provided
About 2.5 billion people, or half of the global labour force, work in the informal economy, the International Labour Organisation estimates. In developing Asian countries, more than 50% of the urban labour force...