Practicing space: Vending practices and street markets in Sana'a Yemen

Geoforum

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 65-72

  Lauermann, John ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business practice; Market space; Marketplace; Qat; Yemen

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; INFORMAL SECTOR; MARKET SYSTEM; RETAILING; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

AMANAH AL ASMAH; SANAA; YEMEN;

CATHA EDULIS;

EID: 84876443149     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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