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The Battle to Curtail LA's Thriving Street Vending Scene

Across the city, in areas as diverse as tourist friendly Venice Beach and the largely immigrant community of Westlake, local officials are leading the charge to crack down on illicit street vending.
10 January 2012 - 2:00pm
New York Times

The Growing Food Truck Industrial Complex

The food truck phenomenon is here to stay and stimulating tangential industries that include truck outfitters, permit expediters, lawyers lobbyists, website designers, and marketing professionals.
24 October 2011 - 12:00pm
The Atlantic

Community Transforms Street Overnight

Local residents bring life back a desolate line of shops in Oak Cliff, a streetcar suburb of Dallas, overnight. The intention of the Better Block project is to demonstrate the value of pedestrian friendly spaces and encourage future investments.
14 September 2010 - 12:00pm
Go Oak Cliff

Vancouver Tests Out Street Vending

Vancouver's streets are buzzing with a new wave of street food vendors, part of a pilot program to expand formalized informal commerce downtown.
15 July 2010 - 5:00am
Globe and Mail

The History of Street Food

A radio interview in Chicago talks about the merits of street food and the historical reasons for restrictions on vendors.
23 January 2010 - 5:00am
WGN Radio 720

Street Food, Now With Table Service

Blogger and landscape architect Lisa Town gathers a few D.I.Y. tables and chairs designed for creating instant public seating space for street food, including a hydrant tabletop.
13 January 2010 - 5:00am
Inspiration Wall
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Guide to Street Vending and Tenants Rights

These two posts from BLDGBLOG look at an innovative project that visually explains the convoluted policies and rules of New York City tenant rights and street vending regulations.
20 December 2009 - 9:00am
BLDGBLOG
Nate Berg

The Informal Economy: Michael Jackson Edition

Tue, 07/07/2009 - 07:43

I couldn't resist. I knew it was going to be a madhouse in downtown L.A. for Michael Jackson's memorial service, but I had to go see what it was like -- not because I'm a super fan, but purely for the urban novelty of a huge swath of downtown closed off for thousands of fans and mourners.

But what really struck me as I was wandering around amongst the masses was the huge percentage of them that were neither fans nor mourners. Lined along the sidewalks leading to the memorial's venue were dozens of vendors, selling everything you could think of with Michael Jackson's name or face pasted on. From buttons to t-shirts to hand-painted portraits, the informal economy was booming down at MJ Central.

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Making Sense of Street Vendor Regulations

The Center for Urban Pedagogy wants to make city codes understandable to the people that are impacted. With that in mind, CUP tackled New York's regulations for street vendors.
8 April 2009 - 1:00pm
The New York Times

Manhattan: Food Desert?

New York has become a concentration of the super-wealthy, and soaring real estate values are driving out supermarkets. Will street vendors be able to fill the gap?
6 March 2008 - 12:00pm
AlterNet
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