formerly known as durban the city has been praised for a renewal project warwick junction which has opened spaces to informal businesses such as street vending the new planning approach was a joint cooperative initiative between public officials and organized street vendors highlighting the suspension of traditional master plans in favour of a more collaborative approach this included the type of interdepartmental coordination and participatory planning needed for street trading bringing public agencies which otherwise work in silos into collaboration with one another the municipality also made sure that street vendors and their preferences guided the lowbudget design facilitating project ownership