This book was the end product of a one-month summer studio in Mexico City that investigated the informal processes of the street. I focused on the street vendor, breaking it down into studies of the architectural constructs, the urban impact on the street-scape, and then finally as a global flow of consumer goods. Steeped within the politics of street culture and largely untouched by official government, the street vendors operate in a separate world that has its own autonomous laws and regulations. Using the street vendor aesthetic of loudness, sheer quantity, and rigorous organization under an illusion of chaos, the book borrows heavily from this language with its use of cropped, collaged photos and discordant color combinations. Part urban investigation and part architectural conjecture, the book tries to explain a different commerce making up a surprising amount of the net global market though we choose to ignore it.