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Public Markets with CDROM (Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architectur)

by Helen Tangires

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Publisher Comments:

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 market houses, as well as central markets and wholesale markets, whose complex of buildings and streets encompass entire market districts. Special features include an essay on the nearly two-hundred-year history of the Fulton Fish Market in New York City and a section on the people and activities that make the public-market system work'"from the farmers and fishermen who travel before dawn to the sanitation staff who clean up at the end of the day. Public markets persist as an enduring and universal form of urban food marketing and distribution, and a strong sense of tradition informs their architecture, design, and engineering.

Review:

Market fetishists meet photo buffs meet historians in the lavishly, monochromatically illustrated Public Markets.

Review:

After looking at this book...you"ll forever see grocery stores and farmer"s markets with new eyes.

Synopsis:

An illustrated history of the buildings and spaces devoted to the urban marketplace for fresh food.
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About the Author

Helen Tangiresis administrator of CASVA, National Gallery of Art, and lives in Washington, DC.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780393731675
Author:
Tangires, Helen
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings
Subject:
Architecture
Subject:
Markets
Subject:
Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial
Subject:
Architecture -- United States.
Subject:
Markets -- United States.
Copyright:
2008
Series:
Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design and Engineering
Publication Date:
March 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
336
Dimensions:
11 x 9 in
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