CONTENTS
The Urban Management Series ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgements xiii
List of photographs xiv
List of figures xvi
List of tables xvii
List of boxes xviii
List of maps xix
List of abbreviations xx
Contributors xxiii
Part I: Public space and urban livelihoods
1. Challenging street livelihoods 3
A//'son Brown
Come rain or shine 3
The informal economy and street trade 5
Urban public space 10
Urban livelihoods framework 12
Structure of the book 15
2. Urban public space in the developing world - a resource
for the poor 17
A//'son Brown
Urban public space and livelihoods I 7
Urban public space, asocial concept 18
Influences over use of urban public space22
Control,contestandexclusion 26
Rights and ownership 31
Towards a rights-based perspective34
3. Informal enterprise and street trading: a civil society and
urban management perspective 37
Nicola Pratt
Setting the context 37
Street vendors and the informal economy 37
Social and political relationships 43
Urban management issues 47
Methodological implications 51
Conclusions 52
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 57
Alison Brown
A comparative view 57
Ghana 60
Lesotho 64
Nepal 67
Tanzania 71
Unique contexts 76
5. An enabling framework? Governance and street trading
in Dares Salaam, Tanzania 79
Tumsifu Nnkya
Dar es Salaam - haven of peace 79
The informal sector in Dares Salaam 80
Evolution of responses to street trading 82
Case studies 90
Conclusion 96
6. Fulcrum of the urban economy: governance and
street livelihoods in Kumasi, Ghana 99
Rudith King
Market traditions in Kumasi 99
Economic and social role of street trading 103
Governance context 106
Case studies I I I
Conclusion I I 7
7. Poverty reduction strategies in Ghana 119
Romanus D. Dinye
Poverty context in Ghana 119
Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS) 123
Urbanization of poverty in Ghana 127
8. Contest and conflict: governance and street livelihoods
in Maseru, Lesotho131
Setsabi Setsabi
The challenges of street vending 131
Governance of public spaces in Maseru 132

Street vending in Maseru 135
Evictions 142
Toward sustainable livelihood outcomes 148
9. The new urban economy: governance and street livelihoods
in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal 153
Sudha Shrestha
City of palaces and temples 153
Governance in Kathmandu 159
Case studies 163
Conclusion 171
Part III: Towards a pro-poor policy agenda
10. Street trading in four cities: a comparison 175
A/i'son Brown
Impetus for the growth of street trading 175
Street trading in the urban economy 176
Urban public space as physical capital I 79
Social capital 183
Shocks and stresses 187
The governance agenda 189
Conclusion 195
11. Enabling the street economy 197
A//son Brown and Carole Rakodi
A livelihoods perspective 198
An enabling urban management agenda 204
Conclusion 210
Notes 213
References 215
Index 237