Ir a comer en el mercado: Aprovisionamiento, consumo y restauración en la transformación de dos modelos de promoción de los mercados urbanos (Barcelona y Madrid)

Abstract

This article reflects on the new urban food market challenges. Urban food markets must be observed as public spaces, and the subject of different current interventions in the context of new urban demands, with special attention to the role of markets as spaces to eat in situ. The new development of markets has led its institutions responsible (public and private) to make some instruments of new urban projects (often linked to tourism) that combine the provision with catering and leisure, with food consumption in the same market space. Using qualitative methodologies, in this article we will discuss about the two main models existing currently in Spain for the promotion and management of urban markets, Barcelona and Madrid, through the study of its two main markets: La Boqueria and San Miguel.