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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Street Vendor"”.
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Drawing the line : spatial street vendor management in Ho Chi Minh City
… on what to do with the complex issue of informal street vending and sidewalk usage, with cities often turning to ineffective licensing or harmful street clearance. This paper seeks to address this unfulfilling dichotomy by analyzing a tourism proposal for a painted pedestrian path in Ho Chi Minh …
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The blame game : how colonial legacies in Hong Kong shape street vendor and public space policies
… public spaces, such as traditional shopping streets and markets, from redevelopment. This thesis explores how the most important form of public space in Hong Kong, streets and sidewalks, has been shaped by the regulatory framework for street vendors and markets, which in turn bears the …
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Accommodate street vendors during the urban development process : with two empirical cases of Zhu Lian (ZL), and Guan Dong (GD) public markets in Hsinchu City, Taiwan
… day, the recurring scene of conflict between street vendors and municipal authorities can be found in virtually every major city around the world. Through licensing, zoning, or relocating, municipal governments devise numerous laws and ordinances to control street vendors in the urban …
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SHOP/VEND : reconciling the future of (in)formal exchange in Saigon's public market
… City, the bustling Ben Thanh market is where vendors have come to sell their wares since the 17th century, and where throngs of locals and tourists alike come to buy, eat, and engage in general exchange and consumption. This marketplace and its vendor population have been instrumental in …
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Pushcarts to Platforms: Measuring Food Delivery Apps’ Effect on Street Vendors’ Location Preferences in the Global South. Case Study: Surakarta, Indonesia
… retailers’ location preference and in particular street vendors in the Global South has been less explored. E-commerce and food delivery apps (FDA) change search costs for customers and could therefore change the desirability of locations for retailers. Yet, most existing retail economic studies …
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Participatory Democracy in the Chinese Cyber World: Case Studies from Weibo
… ethnographic case studies: the response to street vendor Xia Junfeng’s death sentence, the sanitation workers’ strike in Guangzhou, and the anti-trash incineration protest in Yuhang, and triangulates the results with an online survey and examination of the extant literature.</p>
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Institutional relationships and organizational change : lessons from a prominent African NGO in Dakar, Senegal
The November, 2007, street vendor riots in Dakar, Senegal, were one of the country's most powerful expressions of political and economic disintegration in recent times. Almost equally striking was the absence from these events of Enda Tiers Monde, Senegal's oldest, largest, and most influential …
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Spatial stratification of street vendors in downtown Mexico City
… fight for space between city administrators and street vendors working in city centers is one of the major controversies about street commerce. Trying to renew and upgrade their downtowns, city administrators of most urban areas have attempted to relocate street vendors from central areas to …
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Exploring the forms of violence experienced by women street vendors, and the strategies they use to sustain a living, in a particular South African periurban context, Muswodi Dipeni
… the forms of violence experienced by women street vendors and the strategies they use to sustain a living, in a particular South African peri-urban context, Muswodi Dipeni. The research used a qualitative method to explore the forms of violence experienced by the participants who classify …
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Socio-economic efficacy of Mahila Bazaar
Mahila Bazaar is a women-only street vendors’ market in New Delhi, India. A non-government organization, SEWA Delhi, set this market up in the nation’s capital in 2009. It is a unique experiment and the first of its kind in the country where a vendors’ market is legally set up and reserved …
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The impact of COVID-19 on the livelihood of informal sector workers: A case study of street vendors in Eenhana Town, Ohangwena region, Namibia
… sector. Among the most susceptible groups are street vendors, who face increased vulnerability due to their limited skills and resources for coping with such crises. This research aimed to investigate the effects of COVID-19 on the informal sector in Eenhana Town, Ohangwena Region, Namibia. A …
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Just like Ole' Mammy used to Make: Reinterpreting New Orleans African-American Praline Vendors as Entrepreneurs
<p>Women commonly sold goods on the streets of New Orleans throughout the city‘s colonial and antebellum history. Forming a significant presence among the city‘s market places, they sold various food items which included coffee, calas, and pralines. Perhaps the most popular of the African-American …