Abstract
In Brazil, a new type of commercial building, that stands out by its big dimensions together with its architectural simplicity, called the street vendors'market has systematically been inserted in the urban scenarios. But what is most important about its strong presence is that what was once destined to be a place for all the street vendors that occupied the streets and central squares of the cities, now presents itself as a sort of solution adopted by the municipal administrations to a long and endless conflict between the owners of the commercial stores (but not only them) of the sites occupied by the vendors and the increasing group legally classified as informal trades. The street vendors'public market building, even when located in the less valued regions of the city, is not only a regular space of goods sale, but mainly as a place of contact with a multiplicity of fluxes (especially economic and cultural) that extrapolate the city, the region, and the country reaching the most poor population called here subaltern global fluxes. This text attempt to reflect on and assess the category of informality in the urban space departing from the phenomenon of public markets, the fluxes that they comprise, and the place they occupy in the production of cities.
Highlights
A circulação intensificada (1) Apesar de a língua francesa adotar o termo mondialisation como equivalente de globalização, Gruzinski distingue o fenômeno que começa a processar-se no século 16, tratado por ele como mundialização da globalização contemporânea
What is most important about its strong presence is that what was once destined to be a place for all the street vendors that occupied the streets and central squares of the cities, presents itself as a sort of solution adopted by the municipal administrations to a long and endless conflict between the owners of the commercial stores of the sites occupied by the vendors and the increasing group legally classified as informal trades
The street vendors’public market building, even when located in the less valued regions of the city, is a regular space of goods sale, but mainly as a place of contact with a multiplicity of fluxes that extrapolate the city, the region, and the country reaching the most poor population called here subaltern global fluxes. This text attempt to reflect on and assess the category of informality in the urban space departing from the phenomenon of public markets, the fluxes that they comprise, and the place they occupy in the production of cities
Summary
En Brasil, un nuevo tipo de edificio comercial se destaca por sus grandes dimensiones, paralelo con la simplicidad arquitectónica y llamado de ambulantódromo, ha quedado inserto de modo sistemático en los paisajes urbanos. Destinado a reunir los vendedores ambulantes, que de modo general, ocupaban las calles principales y plazas céntricas de las ciudades, el edificio a veces llamado de shopping popular o paraguayódromo, se presenta como una especie de solución adoptada por las administraciones municipales frente al largo e interminable conflicto entre los dueños de establecimientos comerciales (y no exclusivamente con ellos), en las áreas ocupadas por los vendedores ambulantes y el mismo grupo cada vez mayor de los jurídicamente clasificados como comerciantes informales. Este texto pretende una reflexión y evaluación sobre la categoría informal en los espacios urbanos a partir del fenómeno de los ambulantódromos, de los flujos que allí circulan y del lugar que ocupan en la construcción socio cultural de la ciudad
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