“…Modern tertiary equipment has been installed (shopping centers, supermarket chains, private colleges, and training and educational institutes), without preventing the expansion of traditional street vending, present in different parts of the city, territories of survival and consumption for lowerincome inhabitants. This traditional trade encompasses different structures, workers from the capital and from municipalities in the RMF, and its area of influence ranges from local to global (Bezerra da Silva, 2013;Santos, 2014;Queiroz and Muniz, 2020;Muniz et al, 2022), linking the "upper and lower circuits of the urban economy" (Santos, 1979). However, the reproduction of this type of trade in the lower circuit is widespread in medium-sized municipalities in the state and in the RMF, with an impact on the territorial configuration of Maracanaú.…”