Internationally there a few cases where street traders have been sensitively integrated into urban plans. Warwick Junction, the primary transport node in Durban, South Africa was for over 10 years one of the few exceptions. The article details the role played by collective action among women street traders in securing a collaborative planning approach. It argues that Warwick Junction for this period presented an alternative to modernist and gender blind approaches to urban planning. In January 2009 the City Council however announced its plans to build a large shopping mall in Warwick Junction threatening the livelihoods of all street traders in the area. The article concludes by analysing these recent developments.
Resource collections
- Accountability to affected populations (AAP)
- Topics
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience