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 →

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 →

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 →

The Ephemeral Anatomy of the Starlite Swap Meet, Revisited

I recently had to closely revisit some research I conducted several years ago on the Starlite Swap Meet in South El Monte, CA, an industrial suburb located about a 20-minute Continue reading →

Edges, Patches, and Street Vendors

  With today’s post, I am diverging a bit and beginning with a focus on street vending in Los Angeles, where I reside. At the recent American Planning Association’s Annual Continue reading →

Street Vending and Public Market Typologies in Santiago, Chile

Building on my previous post and given that my research’s intent was to observe and document public market and street vending typologies in Latin America, what follows is a generalized Continue reading →

Latin American Street Vending and Public Markets

Intro Post by Jennifer Renteria This last summer, I traveled throughout Latin America in search of public markets and street vendors with the help of the USC School of Architecture Continue reading →