Then, there was El Tepito …
The evening before visiting El Tepito, a neighborhood just a few blocks north of the Zocalo, to explore its ever-sprawling, six days a week street market, I was advised not Continue reading
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Tianguis of Tarps in Mexico City
In a recent The Atlantic Cities post, a collection of Google Earth images of Mexico City’s tianguis (or street markets) by Fabian Neuhaus of Urban Tick, were featured. The images Continue reading
Marketing “3rd World” Thrift
In 2009 I was talking with a friend of ours in Santa Elena de Uairén, Venezuela just North of the Brazilian border. While we talked he described visiting an American Continue reading
Street Vendors on Wheels in Lima, Peru
During my Winter 2011 visit to Lima, Peru, what intrigued me most of the street vending culture there were the innovative wheeled carts covering the city’s dense landscape. Perhaps a Continue reading
Los Angeles’ El Mercado del Pueblo and Street Vending Initiative
As a way to advance the discussion on legalizing street vending in Los Angeles (link), local organizations, with the help of local city government support, have launched El Mercado del Continue reading
In/Outside the Ferinha da Madrugada
What follows is a series of captioned images that attempts to succinctly describe the complicated relationship between the street vendors in the Bras neighborhood of Sao Paulo and the Ferinha Continue reading
La Salada as Subject
La Salada, whose 20 hectares are lined along the south of the Rio Matanza in Buenos Aires, claims to be the largest informal market in Latin America. Given the thoroughness Continue reading
