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Gabó Bartha

Rethinking the marketplace: a story of resistance and proactivity

In 2007, a cluster of activists formed the group ‘Our Treasure, the Market - Hunyadi Square’ (KAP-HT) in order to preserve from shutting down the market at Hunyadi Square which is the only remaining open-air food market in the central districts of Budapest. Linking the luxurious Andrássy avenue to the Király street area that is undergoing radical transformations, this market has become an indicator of the changing demographics, value systems and consumption patterns of the city.

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Aleksandra Wasilkowska

Marketmeter. A creeping trade

Street trade creates a fluctuating and self-organising informal city space.  According to Richard Sennett, informal spaces at the grass-roots level make up the essence of a city.  “Informal public space requires under-determined urban planning, that is, an architecture which allows flexibility of use and admits physical gaps and indeterminate relationships between buildings.  It is in these liminal spaces that informality can flourish – the cafe built into a parking lot or the market stall outside a loading dock. 

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Warsaw symposium

Researching and shaping post-socialist urban space 3.

 

 

 

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Budapest symposium

 

Researching and shaping post-socialist urban space 1.

 

 

 

On the 7th of November 2010, from 2 - 7 pm

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