Street Vendor Atlas
Overview Street vendors are among the most visible yet systematically undercounted economic actors in Indian cities. The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, promised each vendor a certificate of vending, a designated space in a town vending committee, and protection from arbitrary eviction. A decade after enactment, we set out to understand what had actually changed. The Street Vendor Atlas is a spatial and livelihood documentation project covering five cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and Bhubaneswar — chosen to represent different urban scales, governance structures, and regional political economies. ...