Abstract Urban street trees provide critical ecosystem services such as shade and contribute to the health and well-being of urban residents - especially those who spend much of the day outdoors. Our paper focusses on one of the most vulnerable groups in a city: street vendors, who spend much of their time on streets, with or without trees. Most contemporary visions for green cities ignore street vendors and fail to consider their uses and expectations of public green spaces. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 75 street vendors in 11 market streets in the hot Indian city of Hyderabad, we discuss their perceptions of the importance of trees for their daily work and livelihood and describe the challenges that street vendors face in accessing shade in a hot city. In several instances, “development” of urban areas has led to gentrification, with the felling of trees and displacement of street vendors, bringing into question their ‘right to the city’. We argue that street vendors are largely left out of considerations of urban ecological planning, despite being one of the groups most affected by the availability of wooded streets in cities. Ecologists, urban researchers, planners and landscape designers must explicitly consider greening strategies from the perspective of street vendors for inclusive, sustainable urban development.

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作为工作空间的街道：评估印度海得拉巴街头小贩对树木的权利

摘要 城市行道树提供重要的生态系统服务，例如遮荫，并有助于城市居民的健康和福祉——尤其是那些大部分时间在户外度过的人。我们的论文重点关注城市中最脆弱的群体之一：街头小贩，他们大部分时间都在街道上度过，无论有没有树。大多数当代绿色城市愿景都忽视了街头小贩，也没有考虑他们对公共绿地的使用和期望。通过对印度炎热城市海得拉巴 11 条市场街道的 75 名街头小贩的深入采访，我们讨论了他们对树木对其日常工作和生计重要性的看法，并描述了街头小贩在获得阴凉处时所面临的挑战炎热的城市。在一些情况下，城市地区的“发展”导致了高档化，随着树木的砍伐和街头小贩的流离失所，他们的“城市权”受到质疑。我们认为，尽管街头小贩是受城市树木繁茂街道影响最大的群体之一，但在很大程度上被排除在城市生态规划的考虑之外。生态学家、城市研究人员、规划师和景观设计师必须从街头小贩的角度明确考虑绿化战略，以实现包容性、可持续的城市发展。