Public Markets [With CDROM]

by Helen Tangires

An illustrated history of the buildings and spaces devoted to the urban marketplace for fresh food. The public market is a worldwide urban phenomenon with a tradition as old as cities themselves, continuing today in the greenmarket movement. Surveyed here by type are open-air marketplaces, street markets, street vendors, markets that occupy the ground floor of public buildings, open-sided sheds situated in the middle of wide streets, and fully-enclosed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393731677
• ISBN13: 9780393731675
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.9" x 11.3"