Marketplaces

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.

• 1. Introduction, 2. Hanoi’s street vendors on the move: Itinerant vending tactics and mobile methods in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 3. Rhythmic encounters in an Indian marketplace, 4. Spectral analysis of rhythms in urban marketplaces: A day in Esat Marketplace of Ankara (Turkey), 5. Adaptable market-making in eThekwini: Exploring practices of street trading in a South African urban space, 6. La Boqueria, "the mirror of what Barcelona represents": An analysis of public policy and the commodification of food markets, 7. The fluidity of a liminal marketplace: Souq Al-Ahad, Beirut, 8. Marketplace decline heads east: Neoliberal reform, socio-spatial sorting and patterns of decline at Sofia’s public markets, 9. Government’s representation of Belo Horizonte’s public markets: The (ir)reconcilable grammars of economic pragmatism and social justice, 10. Lima markets beyond commerce: Challenges and possibilities of common food spaces in periods of crisis, 11. Markets and belonging: Untangling myths of urban versus small-town life, 12. The role of mobility and transnationality for local marketplaces, 13. The multi-scalar nature of policy im/mobilities: Regulating 'local' markets in the Netherlands, 14. Afterword