Huang Gengzhi, Xue Desheng, Xu Kongdan, Yang Yanshan, Chen Kunlun

Keywords： Urban Informality; Public Space; Street Vending; Formalization; Post-modernism

Abstract：

Coordinating the contradiction between modernity/formality and informality is one of major challenges facing urban planning in the 21st century. This paper opens up the question of what might be good formalization by examining the nature and contradiction of the permitted-vending-place (shudaoqu) policy in Guangzhou, a permissive approach that seeks to regulate street vendors by positioning them in designated places. It is argued that shudaoqu is a space- based formalization strategy given that it seeks to reform and regulate informalities by immobilizing them in bounded spaces, in which a set of regulation derived from formalities are implemented. However, this formalization project manifests an ideology of ‘formalomophism’, which tends to neglect the naturalness and advantages of informal economies, and which renders the project facing a potential risk of unsustainability. The risk is caused by the contradiction between four strategies of formalizing and attributes of informal vending, evidenced by tensions between locational immobility and mobility, rental payment and low cost, contract constraints and flexibility, and product regulation and autonomy. The Guangzhou case indicates the complexity of the coordination of the given order of modern urban spaces and the informal use of public spaces by street vendors. It suggests that planning responses to urban informalities do not simply mean the imposition of existing sets of formal economic institutions on them, but should involve appropriate regulations that meet their needs and suit their circumstances. It therefore suggests that urban planners need to break through the modern planning framework and develop planning theories and methods for responding to mobility and flexibility in an emerging post-modern world.

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