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In Nigeria, informal sector businesses feature prominently in the urban retail system, with its four-pronged hierarchy of the central retail area, subsidiary markets, roadside shopping belts or linear markets, and discrete neighbourhood stores (Mabogunje, 1968; Okoye, 1985; Simon, 1998). Consequently, diversity in both dwelling and space usage has become a dominant urban pattern in the country (Simon, 1989; Onyebueke, 2000; 2001). Despite the embedded nature of informal businesses in Nigerian cities, the situation is still far from hospitable for many informal economic actors, particularly those at the lowest rungs of the urban retail hierarchy. In effect, street traders and other informal entrepreneurs in most Nigerian cities are frequently harassed, extorted, forcibly evicted and occasionally denigrated as ‘miscreants who want to deface the city’1 (Vanguard, 2009; Punch, 2010; The Tide, 2010).
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Onyebueke, V., Anierobi, C. (2014). Relocation and Defiance in the Dhamidja-Azikiwe Informal Shopping Belt in Enugu, Nigeria: Actions Speak Louder than Words. In: Duminy, J., Andreasen, J., Lerise, F., Odendaal, N., Watson, V. (eds) Planning and the Case Study Method in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137307958_6
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