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Informationen zum Autor Alison Brown is a Senior Lecturer in the School of City & Regional Planning at Cardiff University, and an urban planning consultant with a specialism in international planning practice. She is course director for the MSc International Planning & Development. She has recently managed a DFID-funded study on street trading and livelihoods on which the book is based. Klappentext Based on a research study in four developing cities - Dar Es Salaam, Kumasi, Maseru, and Kathmandu - Contested Space explores the survival strategies of street traders and their relationships with city governments, and examines the practical and policy implications for pro-poor street management. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I - Public Space and Urban Livelihoods; 1. Challenging Street Livelihoods; 2. Urban Public Space in the Developing World: A Resource for the Poor; 3. Informal enterprise and street trading: a civil society and urban management perspective; Part II - Street Trading in Four Cities; 4. Setting the Context: social! economic and political influences on the informal sector in Ghana! Lesotho! Nepal and Tanzania; 5. An enabling framework? Governance and street trading in Dar es Salaam! Tanzania; 6. Fulcrum of the urban economy: governance and street livelihoods in Kumasi! Ghana; 7. Poverty reduction strategies in Ghana; 8. Contest and conflict: governance and street livelihoods in Maseru! Lesotho; 9. The new urban economy: governance and street livelihoods in the Kathmandu Valley! Nepal; Part III - Towards a Pro-poor Policy Agenda; 10. Street trading in four cities: a comparison; Notes; List of Abbreviations; References
