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IN/FORMAL MARKETPLACES
Experiments with Urban Reconfiguration

Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer (eds)
Rotterdam: nai010 publishers 2023, ISBN 978-94-6208-809-2
www.nai010.com

From nomadic labour to online services and from street food kitchens to pop-up shops, informality is on the rise as never before. Its transformative power can be seen in the new ways we produce, consume and live, with commerce playing a crucial role in these changes. The resulting tension between the formal and the informal is nowhere more evident than in the struggles over contested marketplaces.

This book provides a deeper understanding of the formal-informal linkages that have given shape to some of the world’s largest and most unique open-air marketplaces. Its rich and engaging visual analyses of markets in cities such as Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Dubai and New York reveal the hidden connections between informal trade, neoliberal governance and urban development.

CONTENTS (selected chapters available as PDF)

Acknowledgements

Helge Mooshammer and Peter Mörtenböck
Incorporating Informality

FORCED CLOSURE

Anton Nikolotov
Cherkizovsky Market: Popular Markets in Moscow and Their Border Spectacles

Trude Laure Renwick
Saphan Lek Market: Waterways, Heritage, and the Politics of 'Good' Commerce in Bangkok

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La Salada: Paraformality in Buenos Aires, 2001-2023

RELOCATION

Melisa Vargas
Dajabón Binational Market: Haitian-Dominican Markets as Places of Exception

Alan Cain
Roque Santeiro: What Ever Happened to the Roque? Towards De-criminalising the Angolan Informal Market

Vyjayanthi V. Rao and Simpreet Singh
Gujari Bazaar: Ahmedabad's Riverfront Market – Form, De-form, In-form

IMPROVEMENT

Samar Halloum
Urban Regeneration in Dubai – Informality Out of Sight

Paul Chu Hai Shan
Tin Shui Wai Dawn Market: Informal Markets in One of Hong Kong's Planned Satellite Towns

Carmen Lael Hines
Encants Vells: The Urbanisation of 'Exchange' in Barcelona

APPROPRIATION

Lovro Koncar-Gamulin
Arizona Market: Navigation Change in Brčko's Post-conflict Landscape

Carmen Lael Hines
Brooklyn Flea: The 'Between' of Urban Financialisation in New York

Trude Laura Renwick
Talad Rot Fai: Precedent or Problem – An Ecology of Thailand's Private Markets

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