1st Edition
The Market Space of Portuguese Cities Urbanism and Commercial Architecture, 15th–17th Centuries
By Daniela Nunes Pereira
Copyright 2025
346 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
346 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the transformation of market spaces in Portuguese cities during the intensification of trade driven by increasing profits from overseas exchanges, and how architectural structures and urban planning were directly impacted by these changes to accommodate the new economic dynamics.
The terminology and architectural elements of commercial spaces are analyzed to understand the... Read more
Introduction
1. The Market in the City: Topographies and Morphologies
2. The Architectures of the Market: Typologies and Functions
3. The Market in Urban Transformation: Case Studies
Final Considerations
Biography
Daniela Nunes Pereira was a Juan de la Cierva Researcher in the Department of American and Medieval History and Historiographical Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she is also a member of the HISEURAM Group. She is now a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Exeter.
