154 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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Using a transnational analytical framework, this book provides a comprehensive overview of formal and informal markets and place in globalised cities. It examines how urban markets are situated within social, cultural and media discourses, and within material and symbolic economies. The book addresses four key narratives – redevelopment and relocation; privatization of public space; urban... Read more
1. What is a market? 2. Markets as metonyms of urban transformation: East London 3. Markets and place-image: Rio de Janeiro 4. Markets as unremarkable and remarkable places: Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Beijing 5. Dis/placing markets through urban renewal: Sydney 6. The right to the city in a downtown farmers’ market: San Francisco 7. Markets and urbanism: Antwerp
Biography
Kirsten Seale lectures in Interdisciplinary Design at the University of Technology Sydney and is Adjunct Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University.
