by Julian d'Angiolillo
Occupying the derelict remains of a once popular resort area on the fringes of Buenos Aires, La Salada is a sprawling informal flea market that specializes in textiles. Twice a week, at daybreak, this fair activates a powerful non-hegemonic economy in which numerous home-based manufacturers sell their goods to wholesalers coming from across the country.
Studies
A massive open market exists underneath the Superhighway between Shenzhen and Guangzhou
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Elastic borders at the Dominican ‘International Fairs’
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in the Tri-Border Area of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina
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Occupying the derelict remains of a once popular resort area on the fringes of Buenos Aires
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The body as a commercial vehicle
Case studies from Lima, Peru and Tijuana, México
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Rom-Hoob market runs about 500 meters along both sides of the Mae Klong railway in Samut Songkhram.
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A container market located outside of Odessa, at the ‘7th Kilometre’, claims to be the largest market in Europe.
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as a liberated archive
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Vietnamese markets sprawl on former no-man's-land along the Iron Curtain
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In the border town of Tijuana more than 300 street markets provide a much needed common sphere
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Four Tigers Market is a major node of the East Asian migrant community in Budapest.
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A game of masquerades, Moscow's Cherkizovsky market occupies a 1980s Olympics site.
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At Arizona Market in Bosnia and Herzegovina informal urbanisation intersects with post-war peacekeeping.
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High-contrast developments take place just outside Istanbul's Byzantine city walls.
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