Table Of ContentMarketplaces
This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic
and open entities consisting of flows of people, goods and ideas.
There is a renewed interest in research and policy arenas in marketplaces as
the core of cities’ spatial and economic development and sociocultural life, as
incubators of urban renewal and platforms of alternative consumption models
and as a source of livelihood for many people worldwide. Contributions of this
book draw on notions of movements, representations and practices to illustrate
that markets have physical reality but are also culturally and socially encoded,
and experienced through practice. It brings together empirically evidenced
scholarly and practice-based works from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands,
Switzerland, Spain, Bulgaria, Turkey, Lebanon, Peru, Brazil, Vietnam, South
Africa and India.
This book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students of urban
geography, urban design and planning, sociology, anthropology, who are inter-
ested in the relation between place and mobility in general, and markets as
‘knots’ in the city, in particular. It also informs policy-makers how urban plan-
ning policies and design interventions for marketplaces may foster more socially
inclusive and environmentally just cities.
Ceren Sezer is a Research Associate at the Institute for Urban Design and Euro-
pean Urbanism of Aachen University, Germany. She is joint editor of Market-
places as an Urban Development Strategy (2013), Public Space and Urban Justice
(2017) and the author of Visibility, Democratic Public Space and Socially Inclusive
Cities (2020).
Rianne van Melik is an Associate Professor in Urban Geography at the Institute
of Management Research at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Her research focuses on contemporary cities and their public spaces, with specific
interests in the design, management, use and perception of different kinds of
public spaces. She is principal investigator of the Moving Marketplaces (MMP)
project.
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Marketplaces
Movements, Representations and Practices
Edited by Ceren Sezer and
Rianne van Melik
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Contents
List of illustrations ix
List of contributors x
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Introduction 1
RIANNE VAN MELIK AND CEREN SEZER
2 Hanoi’s street vendors on the move: Itinerant vending
tactics and mobile methods in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 15
CELIA ZUBEREC AND SARAH TURNER
3 Rhythmic encounters in an Indian marketplace 28
KIRAN KESWANI
4 Spectral analysis of rhythms in urban marketplaces: A day
in Esat Marketplace of Ankara (Turkey) 38
NIHAN OYA MEMLÜK-ÇOBANOĞLU AND BILGE BERIL KAPUSUZ-BALCI
5 Adaptable market-making in eThekwini: Exploring practices
of street trading in a South African urban space 50
NOXOLO NDABA AND KARINA LANDMAN
6 La Boqueria, “the mirror of what Barcelona represents”: An
analysis of public policy and the commodification of food markets 63
MARIA LINDMÄE AND MARCO MADELLA
7 The fluidity of a liminal marketplace: Souq Al-Ahad, Beirut 76
CHRISTINE MADY
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8 Marketplace decline heads east: Neoliberal reform,
socio-spatial sorting and patterns of decline at Sofia’s
public markets 88
NIKOLA A. VENKOV
9 Government’s representation of Belo Horizonte’s public
markets: The (ir)reconcilable grammars of economic
pragmatism and social justice 101
PATRÍCIA SCHAPPO
10 Lima markets beyond commerce: Challenges and possibilities
of common food spaces in periods of crisis 114
ANA MARÍA HUAITA ALFARO
11 Markets and belonging: Untangling myths of urban versus
small-town life 129
SOPHIE WATSON AND MARKUS BREINES
12 The role of mobility and transnationality for local marketplaces 139
JOANNA MENET AND JANINE DAHINDEN
13 The multi-scalar nature of policy im/mobilities: Regulating
‘local’ markets in the Netherlands 150
EMIL VAN ECK, RIANNE VAN MELIK AND JORIS SCHAPENDONK
14 Afterword 161
SARA GONZÁLEZ
Index 168
Illustrations
Figures
1.1 Two versions of a marketplace 6
2.1 Three itinerant vendors’ daily routes 18
2.2 Female vendor Vinh’s narrative map 19
3.1 A typical chai stall in Manek Chowk, Ahmedabad 30
3.2 The relationship between space, time and movement 34
4.1 Analysis of the rhythms of Esat Marketplace, 2020 44
4.2 Rhythmic agents and their types of presence in Esat Marketplace 46
4.3 QR Code 47
5.1 Victoria Street Precinct in the eThekwini Municipality 54
5.2 Traders selling food on the street 56
7.1 Map of marketplaces in Beirut 79
7.2 Prices of land in the Souq’s area compared to Ashrafieh, 2004–2016 82
8.1 A mix of agricultural producers and retailers at
the Women’s Market, 2012 94
8.2 Senior citizens queuing at the shop booths of the Women’s
Market, 2013 96
9.1 Mercado do Cruzeiro, Belo Horizonte 105
9.2 Corridor of empty shops at FECOPE, Belo Horizonte 106
9.3 CAM with some vicinity customers 106
10.1 Mercado San Jose, Jesus Maria—Lima displaying the diversity
of both products and visitors meeting daily, April 2015 120
10.2 Mercado El Eden, San Luis—Lima continued operating during the
COVID-19 crisis by adapting facilities and services, April 2020 122
13.1 The mobilisation process of the Services Directive 157
Tables
5.1 Directives of spatial resilience for public space 52
6.1 The historical evolution of La Boqueria and the network
of municipal markets 66
6.2 Development of market policy, 1991–2017 68
