Street Trading and Public Policies in Historic Centers

Abstract

Mexico City and Lima are both scenes where opposition between street vendors and public authorities crystallizes in their historic centres. In the 1980s-1990s such opposition took the form of a conflict of image, with the emergence of a new cultural and aesthetic discourse and a consensus on heritage conservation. Municipal expulsion policies and relocation of itinerant traders were then implemented in the two cities. However, whereas at the beginning of 2007, the historic centre of Mexico City was still teeming with itinerant vendors, the old counterpart areas of Lima had none. The comparative study of these two policies aimed to analyse two policies that aimed to expel a practice the authorities and certain representations considered as marginal and also the divergent reactions of the street vendors in the two cities. These could be explained largely by the differences in organization and in the political weight of itinerant street trading in the two capitals.

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