Displacement and the new spaces for informal trade in the Latin American city centre

Bromley, Rosemary D. F. and Mackie, Peter Kelso 2009. Displacement and the new spaces for informal trade in the Latin American city centre. Urban Studies 46 (7) , pp. 1485-1506. 10.1177/0042098009104577

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Abstract

Using evidence from Cusco, Peru, the paper examines the effects of the planned displacement of informal traders from city-centre streets. Although more than 3500 traders were relocated to new off-centre markets, the research identifies the emergence of `unplanned' alternative city-centre locations for informal trade, especially the new courtyard markets. The municipal-led changes, influenced strongly by concerns to enhance tourism, reveal a process which displays many of the hallmarks of gentrification. Lower-class traders were displaced from city-centre streets for the benefit of middle-class tourists and local people. There was also gentrification of the trading activity itself: by manipulating stall allocation and pricing structures to exclude the poorest traders from the new higher-quality municipal markets. The changing pattern of informal trading can be viewed as an unconventional `barometer' of the progress of policy-led gentrification, applicable to other cities in the developing world

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0042-0980
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2019 09:07
URI:	http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/10644

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