1st Edition
Marketplaces Movements, Representations and Practices
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Rianne van Melik and Ceren Sezer
Chapter 2 - Hanoi’s street vendors on the move: Itinerant vending tactics and mobile methods in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Celia Zuberec and Sarah Turner
Chapter 3 - Rhythmic encounters in an Indian marketplace
Kiran Keswani
Chapter 4 - Spectral analysis of rhythms in urban marketplaces: A day in Esat Marketplace of Ankara (Turkey)
Nihan Oya Memlük-Çobanoğlu and Bilge Beril Kapusuz-Balcı
Chapter 5 - Adaptable market-making in eThekwini: Exploring practices of street trading in a South African urban space
Noxolo Ndaba and Karina Landman
Chapter 6 - La Boqueria, "the mirror of what Barcelona represents": An analysis of public policy and the commodification of food markets
Maria Lindmäe and Marco Madella
Chapter 7 - The fluidity of a liminal marketplace: Souq Al-Ahad, Beirut
Christine Mady
Chapter 8 - Marketplace decline heads east: Neoliberal reform, socio-spatial sorting and patterns of decline at Sofia’s public markets
Nikola A. Venkov
Chapter 9 - Government’s representation of Belo Horizonte’s public markets: The (ir)reconcilable grammars of economic pragmatism and social justice
Patrícia Schappo
Chapter 10 - Lima markets beyond commerce: Challenges and possibilities of common food spaces in periods of crisis
Ana María Huaita Alfaro
Chapter 11 - Markets and belonging: Untangling myths of urban versus small-town life
Sophie Watson and Markus Breines
Chapter 12 - The role of mobility and transnationality for local marketplaces
Joanna Menet and Janine Dahinden
Chapter 13 - The multi-scalar nature of policy im/mobilities: Regulating 'local' markets in the Netherlands
Emil van Eck, Rianne van Melik and Joris Schapendonk
Chapter 14 - Afterword
Sara González
Biography
Ceren Sezer is a Research Associate at the Institute for Urban Design and European Urbanism of Aachen University, Germany. She is joint editor of Marketplaces 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.
