Abstract

PEREIRA MORATO, Rene. The street market trade in the Max Paredes Macrodistrict and the appropriation of the public space. Tinkazos [online]. 2015, vol.18, n.38, pp.35-51. ISSN 1990-7451.

This article presents information about the use, transformation and appropriation of the public space by street market traders in the Max Paredes Macrodistrict of La Paz. This sector's intense economic activity is analysed in connection with the social and cultural processes that must be taken into account in order to understand its permanence and functionality in the big city.

Keywords : street markets; street traders; itinerant trade; Max Paredes Macrodistrict; appropriation of the public space; trade - family networks.

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