This work aims to reflect on the practice of zungueiras, street vendors in Luanda, in order to understand how the space experienced by these women are tactics of urban space production, and consequently sources to rethink the concepts about development. From the context of Luanda, about their overlaps between the colonial legacy and current urban transformations with a view to a global city, is presented as the zungueiras through the informal practice, produce and resignify this urban space locally. The production of cooperation, through ties of solidarity, and of female empowerment by zungueiras are identified as major contributions found by this work for horizontal cohesions constructions on the urban development of Luanda, and also, as sources of knowledge for paving paths for other perspectives on development and policies from below.
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