Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City

by Daniel M. Goldstein

Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha's legal and permanent stall vendors (fijos) and its illegal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360454
• ISBN13: 9780822360452
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"