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Street trading has become integral to how public space works in cities of the global South. It cannot be considered as marginal since it gears to the urban ... NextArticleinJournal OvercomingBarriersforAdoptingCleanerProduction:ACaseStudyinBrazilianSmallMetal-MechanicCompanies PreviousArticleinJournal TheAssessmentofNon-FinancialRiskSourcesofSMESintheV4CountriesandSerbia Journals Topics Information ForAuthors ForReviewers ForEditors ForLibrarians ForPublishers ForSocieties ForConferenceOrganizers OpenAccessPolicy InstitutionalOpenAccessProgram SpecialIssuesGuidelines EditorialProcess ResearchandPublicationEthics ArticleProcessingCharges Awards Testimonials AuthorServices Initiatives Sciforum MDPIBooks Preprints Scilit SciProfiles Encyclopedia JAMS ProceedingsSeries About Overview Contact Careers News Blog SignIn/SignUp Notice Youcanmakesubmissionstootherjournals here. clear Notice Youareaccessingamachine-readablepage.Inordertobehuman-readable,pleaseinstallanRSSreader. 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Sustainability2019,11(17),4807;https://doi.org/10.3390/su11174807 Received:30June2019 / Revised:12August2019 / Accepted:28August2019 / Published:3September2019 ViewFull-Text DownloadPDF BrowseFigures CitationExport BibTeX EndNote RIS CiteThisPaper Abstract StreettradinghasbecomeintegraltohowpublicspaceworksincitiesoftheglobalSouth.Itcannotbeconsideredasmarginalsinceitgearstotheurbaneconomyandworksasakeymodeofincomegenerationfortheurbanpoortosustainlivelihoods.Apoorunderstandingofhowformsofstreettradingworkinpublicspacecanleadtopoordesignandpolicyinterventions.Whilemanypracticesofformalizationaimattheeliminationofinformality,thechallengeistoexplorethecomplexinformal/formalrelationsandthedynamicsofstreettradingtounderstandhowformsofinformalitynegotiatespaceandvisibilityinthepublicrealm.Inthispaper,weproposeatypologyofstreettrading,basedonthecriteriaofmobilitywithinpublicspaceandproximitytopublic/privateurbaninterfaces.Whileexploringthedegreesofmobilityininformalstreettradingcanbecrucialtothemodesofgovernanceandadaptabilityinvolved,ofcriticalimportanceistoinvestigatehowstreettradingtakesplaceinrelationtothebuiltform—particularlytheedgesofpublicspacewherepublic/privateinterfacesenableorconstrainexchangeandappropriation.Thedevelopedtypologyprovidesabetterunderstandingofthedynamicsofstreettradingandcontributestothewaysinwhichthebuiltenvironmentprofessionscanmosteffectivelyengagewithinterventionsinpublicspacewithouteradicatingthescopeforinformaladaptations. 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