Paper. 'Economy Conference' 2011. WSA Cardiff University
Figure 6. Distribution of family income per month in Santiago. Source: GeoAdimark (2009) & Suau (2011).
Figure 7. Left side: Typologies of retail spaces along the corridor of Panamericana in the Metropolitan Area of Santiago de Chile grouped them by size and location. Right side: Formal/informal commerce (%) in the north strip of Panamericana in Santiago. Source: Suau (2010).
Although informal trade remains visually displaced and undetected, its every-day activity constitutes a vivid expression of domestic economies which are excluded to coparticipate in the formal sector. Regarding the informal commercial spaces allocated along the strip, we can distinguish the following types: Macro and micro retail spaces in the core or the periphery of cities. The majority of the informal commerce is concentrated in the low-rise and low-income periphery of the city. Revising the literature on Latin American informal cities, it seems that the spatial