The (Re-)Model Market

The (Re-)Model Market: Street Food Market as Urban Restorative Entities

Dosheva, Ana (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Fokkinga, J.D. (graduation committee)
Kuijper, J.A. (graduation committee)
Alkan, A.S. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers

2023-11-02

Street Food markets have been a key ingredient of the urban life for centuries. In many cases the direction and intensity of urban expansion was strongly reliant on the emergence of the street food market and vice-versa. These link between the two has been inevitable historically until now and will probably continue as such in the future. However, the city changes on daily basis and, being a reflection of it, so does the market. While the former speeds up, becomes more erratic and stressful, the latter slows down, transforms into a space of gather and pleasure, exceeding beyond its food trade function. Therefore, their relationship also changes, with the market becoming an instrument of healing for both the city and the individual. London, being a distinct example of the contemporary megapolis and having a key role in the historic evolution of street food markets, was chosen as a test bed for the research to untangle what is the situation of the street food market today as an urban and experiential entity and question its future potentials.

street food
market
urban well-being
restorative environments
food in the city
nature in the city
material cycles
urban behaviours
affective atmospheres

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