ABSTRACT
Territoriality is defined as behaviour by which an organism lays claim to an area, creates a tangible or intangible boundary, and defends it against members of its own species. This chapter aims to understand how people generate such boundaries within urban spaces. It looks at the utilization of the urban space for a periodic marketplace and how the fair marks its territory in the city. It focuses on how vendors informally mark and defend their own selling space or territory within this urban space. The chapter highlights how this collective memory is an outcome of the social capital of street vendors informally accrued over generations and has become a key factor in the marking of territory. The emergence and persistence of a periodic market in a region is often understood through economic location theory. The chapter offers a research; the context for understanding territoriality in urban space is the annual Peanut Fair in Bangalore, India.
