Territoriality in urban space the case of a periodic marketplace in Bangalore

Abstract

As people participate in the buying and selling of goods within the informal sector, they exercise control over the urban space in which they are situated. For vendors, this control is the ability to appropriate some part of the urban spatial environment to support their economic activity, and sometimes their social needs. It is this control exercised by street vendors that as understood in this chapter is seen as territoriality in the urban space.