Introduction

1. Urban regulation for self-employed informal workers

Sally Roever & Michael Rogan

2. Disambiguating legalities: Street vending, law, and boundary work in Mexico City

Tiana Baki? Hayden

3. Power dynamics and the regulation of street vending in the urban space: The law on the books and the law on the ground in Accra and Dakar

Teresa Marchiori & Pamhidzai Bamu

4. Differential effects of vending formalisation in New York City, USA

Ryan Thomas Devlin

5. Local government regulations and the dispossession of urban informal vendors in Delhi, India

Ankit K. Singh & Roshni Yadav

6. Impact of new planning policies on sustenance and inclusivity of street trading in Dhaka: A critical review of Detailed Area Plan 2016-2035

Nabanita Islam

7. Advocating for a Livelihood-Centric Master Plan: Learnings from Delhi

Malavika Narayan, Shalini Sinha, Avi Singh Majithia

8. Turbulent transformations and urban undesirables: Revanchist urban transition and street-based sex work in Bangalore

Neethi P & Anant Kamath

9. Overlooked mobility: Domestic workers commuting in Bogota, Medellin, and Sao Paulo

Valentina Montoya Robledo

10. New perspectives on the work of waste pickers: the construction of a “recycling node” in Mercedes, Argentina

Veronica V. Puricelli

11. Pursuing aspirations for decent sanitation work: How informal workers navigate the universe of rules that shape sanitation practices in urban Africa

Julian Walker; Adriana Allen; Ibrahim Bangura; Pascale Hofmann; Wilbard Kombe; Nelly Leblond; Tatu Limbumba; Catarina Simoes Mavila; Claudy Vouhe; Julia Wesely

12. Urban informal workers’ Covid-19 compliance: Evidence on social capital and enforcement politics from Indonesia

Ying Gao

13. Informal Work and the Social Function of the City: A Framework for Legal Reform in the Urban & Spatial Environment

Thomas Coggin