Supplying Barcelona
The Role of Public Market Halls in the Construction of the Urban Food System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11109764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pere Fuertes (0000-0003-0477-5965, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, corresponding author), Eulalia M Gomez-Escoda (0000-0001-7675-9441, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1121-1139 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Urban History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0096-1442 • E-ISSN: 1552-6771 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0096144220971821 |
| OpenAlex | W3106571139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The origin of Barcelona’s food system can be determined at the time when open-air markets were moved to covered spaces. Since then, market halls have adapted to many different scenarios: they have been the built form of public support for food sanitary control, a guarantee of quality and variety of edibles or a tool for the regeneration of urban fabrics. While in the second half of the twentieth-century comparable market systems in other European cities began to decline, half of the thirty-eight active markets at the end of the 2010s were built out of time in the city as a result of a public policy that accompanied urban expansion through the consolidation of small neighborhood centers. With the development of the so-called “Barcelona model” of regeneration of public space in the 1990s, markets became key pieces for urban transformation through food supply systems, a strategy still in force today
Architectural engineering · Business · Civil engineering · Consolidation (business · Economics · Economy · Environmental planning · Geography · Public space · Urban planning · Urban regeneration · Variety (cybernetics · Engineering · Finance · Latin American Urban Studies · Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |