The aim of this paper is to analyze the street vendors activity using the discussions and concepts of city and territory. This analysis takes into account ethnographic studies carried out in the hawker market, as well as the proposed two shifts, as follows: the displacement of the idea of city-concept for urban practices, and according to the demystification of the logic established in the restructuring process, which verifies functional street vendors activity marginalized as a practice. This requires an analysis of the concepts of city, as well as operation and possibilities of the street vendor activity in between these concepts, in order to subsidize, at the end of this essay, some implications for the logic previously established and establish assumptions and prejudices about operation of such trading activity. A first step will be discussion of the concepts and implications of city street vendor activity in this inset. The second step will be a deepening of discussions about the city in the logic of urban practices, seeking to emphasize the importance of observing the microterritory. Third will be the presentation of ethnographic studies in the developed peddler market. Finally, the fourth step is an analysis of the ethnographic data discussed in this work, taking into account the discussions of city and territory, allowing the offset to the idea of urban practice, and the demystification of logic in the restructuring process.
Street vendor; City; Informal market; Territory; Urban practice