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"Street trades" is a book category that centers on the everyday work, skills, and economies of urban life—food vendors, street vendors and market sellers, bike couriers, street performers, informal mechanics, shoe shiners, hustlers, and other place-based trades that operate at sidewalk level. These books can be fiction or nonfiction (memoir, reportage, ethnography, how-to guides) and emphasize craft, survival, improvisation, entrepreneurship, and the social networks that sustain informal labor. Common themes include resilience, ingenuity, class and policy tensions, local culture and sensory detail, and the blurred lines between legality and necessity; together such works offer close-up, human-scaled portraits of cities and the people who make them run.

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