Keywords
participatory research
informal sales
everyday life
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Abstract
Medellín is one of the Colombian cities with the highest number of implemented projects for informal sales organizations. However, downtown Medellin the lack of space balance between the street vendors, pedestrians and vehicles, is evident. The objective of this paper is to check the importance of direct users´ participation in the formulation of urban projects as related to street selling. It also aims to illuminate the perceptions of pedestrians, formal sellers, and informal vendors of the phenomenon and its implications. The main methodological tool used in the research was participatory design. By using this tool, 66 regulated informal sellers located on calle Pichincha collaborated with the University to identify their main needs, problems, and solutionsThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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