Marketplaces as an Urban Development Strategy
About this issue
Summary
The editors’ ambition in this issue is to stimulate a useful and collaborative conversation – amongst academics as well as planners and designers...
Marketplaces are a great deal more than the commercial gathering places that city authorities sometimes take them to be. They are flexible spatial and temporal organizations that provide vivid and inclusive public spaces. As sites of intereactions of flows of people, goods and information, they facilitate an improvised and spontaneous synergy of people and communities, which is at the core of the everyday life of the city.
The editors’ ambition in this issue is to stimulate a useful and collaborative conversation – amongst academics as well as planners and designers – on the role that marketplaces can play in today’s cities.
Contents
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Market Places as an Urban Development Strategy
Freek Janssens and Ceren Sezer -
Vancouver's Chinatown Night Market: Gentrification and the Perception of Chinatown as a Form of Revitalization
Yolande Pottie-Sherman -
Constructing the Marketplace: A Socio-Spacial Analysis of Past Marketplaces in Istanbul
Eda Ünlü Yücesoy -
Occupying the Centre: Handicraft Vendors, Cultural Vitality, Commodification, and Tourism in Cusco, Peru
Linda J. Seligmann and Daniel Guevara -
From Fake Market to a Strong Brand: The Silk Street Market in Beijing
Ching Lin Pang and Sara Sterling -
Privatized Transformation of Public Space
James Filipi -
'Flying Markets': Activating Public Spaces in Amsterdam
Freek Janssens and Ceren Sezer -
Socio-economic and Spacial Reorganization of Albert Cuyp Market
Pinar Balat -
Design of Natural Markets: Accommodating the Informal
Rushank Mehta and Chintan Gohil -
Hierarchies Produced by Scale-Structure: Food Markets in the Third Ring of Beijing
Sheng Qiang
