Openair Cyber-Journal: reports, guides, essays, articles, book excerpts, and poems about open air markets


by OPENAIR-MARKET NET


Abundant Harvest- Excerpts from book on Fresno's Vineyard Farmers Market by Sharon Young

Annual Report - Plummer Park Farmers Market, West Hollywood, California

Baltimore Municipal Markets

Bargain Mall Guide to Flea Markets in the U.S.

Bhendi Bazar: Mumbai's Little Pakistan

Bibliography about marketplaces and street vendor issues.

Big Book, Search for flea markets by entering "Flea Market" as category .

The Business of Herbs, by Laura Z. Clavio (Utilizing Farmers Markets as market for Herbs).

Camera Collecting at Flea Markets, by Maurizio Frizziero

China's Free Markets (Farmers' Markets) -A Photo Tour by Ditty Deamer

Community Supported Agriculture at EcoVillage, Ithaca, N.Y., by John and Jennifer Boaker-Smith

Concerning the regulation of farmers' markets in the U.S. by Amy Todd

Confessions of a Flea Market Junkie by Gabrielle Shannon (from Urban Desire Interactive Magazine)

Court rules the street vendor's constitutional rights violated. by Randy Lemmerman (Oregon Daily Emerald, 11/4/94)

Cromer's P-nuts, History of a peanut business - including farmers' market and peddler story.

The Demise of an Urban Market: Does it matter? Who cares? by Carolyn Eastwood

FarmMARKET (Guide and Clearinghouse) - The National Urban Market Center at Purdue U.

Farmers Doubters, what's really homegrown, by Richard Sine

Farmer's Market: a peddlers' paradise, by Karen Schwartz

Farmers Market Guides by Sally Bernstein

Farmers' Market Produce Prices: A Multivariate Analysis by Bill Blake

Farmers' Markets in Massachusetts

Farmers Working Together for a Fair and Honest Market Place by Callie Bowdish

First Monday Trade Days - 100 year history of a market by Bettee Avann 

Five Top Farmers Markets , from Good Housekeeping

Flea Market Net

Flea Markets - The Concept; Shopping Tips; Advice for First Time Sellers.

Food From The 'Hood - Planting Seeds, Harvesting Scholarships - South Central LA

Food Institute Report

Food Vendor Truck Operator (human interest story)

Fragmented Economies and Arabbers by Curtis Price

French markets - types of markets and schedules

Fresh from the Farmers Market

Goodridge's Guides To Flea Markets - info on four regional U.S. editions

That Great Good Place , by Catherine Seipp (L.A. farmers market)

Great Quotes about Open Air Markets

Hastings, Nebraska Farmer's Market by Andy Raun

Hunts Point Market future clouded, from Bronx Beat Online.

I Don't Care Much for Watermelon a poem by Craig C. Bailey

Informal Cyberspace - John Cross's papers on informal sector, small business, Mexico and Egypt

The Informal Economy in Latin America: Def., Measurement & Policies, by A. Portes & R. Schauffler

Images of Istanbul by Walter and Cherie Glaser Immigrant Entrepreneurs Remaking Georgia Avenue by Rosario Negusse

The Internet Resale Directory, guide to secondhand, surplus and salvage.

Jewish Market, and Jewish Scrap Vendor, by William Kurelek .

Jewtown - Chap. 10 in How The Other Half Lives by Jacon Riis (1900).

Lucy's Greenmarket Report - Frequently updated report on the Union Greenmarket in New York

Koti Bazaar, a poem by Geeta Dharmarajan

Lee's Flea Market Guide by Lee Smith (listing of flea markets by state or event)

The Low Cost of High Chairs: Flea Markets are Irresistible by R. Erickson

Market Day, a poem by Amy Lowell

Market in Wadi Natrun, Egypt (Also select "NEXT" at bottom of page)

Market Day at the Rocks, by Marjorie Crowley

Market Nurturing Run Amok by Jane Jacobs

Market Values, gourmet chef discusses farmers market produce, by A.J. Szenda

Marketplace, a song by Hugh Masekaleh 

Markets, Libraries, and the Internet by Gregory E. Williams, Libraries For The Future

Marrakesh Night Market, a poem / song lyric by Loreena McKennitt

Maxwell Street Cyber-Trilogy - An Urban Cultural Saga in Three Home Pages.

Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis Memorial Home Page

Menlo Park's farmers market continues

Microenterprise News - news, views, features related to the informal sector

A Month of Sundays, by Migdalia Martinez-Marcus (street markets in South America)

A Morning at the Pasar Tani (Malaysian Farmer's Market) by Saiful

The Mysterious Street Vendors -- A glimpse of life on the streets of Tokyo, by Liz Chisholm and Emily Wolahan

The New York Pushcart Commission (1906)

Now Women Traders in Durban Fight For Their Rights by Farouk Chothia (from Electronic Mail&Guardian)

Policy related Usenet postings and E-mail regarding open-air markets.

Promoting Local Markets: An Excerpt from South Africa's Rural Development Strategy of the Government of National Unity, Pretoria, 12 October 1995.

Public Markets and Community Revitalization (excerpts) by Theodore Spitzer and Hilary Baum

Red Hill Community Market - Mornington Peninsula, Australia - multi-link history and description of a market.

Reflections on Stabroek Market, Georgetown, Guyana, by Moira F. Croy

Saturday Market: A Historical Perspective.

Sell What You Sow! The Grower's Guide To Produce Marketing (excerpts) + 50 Farm Marketing Tips by Eric Gibson

Sharing The Wealth - short essay about Mexican beggars by Stan Gotlieb

Street Food Around the World

Street Foods: Urban Food and Employment in Developing Countries - new book by I. Tinker

Street Performers Around the World

Street Vendor - Business and Industry Profile by IL Dept. of Commerce

Street Vendors in Public Spaces in Historic Downtown Mexico City (in English and Spanish) by Mauricio Ibarra Deras

The Unofficial Swapmeet Directory

Testament & Image of Clyde 'Kingfish' Smith (1943) - Harlem Street Vendor

Thailand's Markets Detailed descriptions of the many market areas of Thailand

Travelocity Worldwide Marketplace Guide

USDA Wholesale and Alternative Markets Program

USDA RETAIL farmers market guide

USDA WHOLESALE farmers market guide

USDA Wholesale produce prices - through U. of Kentucky and GAIN

The Value of Benefits of a Public Street Market - Maxwell Street (excerpts) by A. Morales, S. Balkin, and J. Persky.

Visit to an Egyptian Camel Market by Steve Coryell

What's Ripe - what's in season and price report from markets in 12 major U.S. cities (by Epicurious)

When a Street Market Supports the Shopping Center - a discussion of the value of street markets for formal shopping centers by Australian town planner Peter Reynders

Why New York City Is Arresting Artists by Robert Lederman

WPA Life Histories Project (Library of Congress Historic Collection). Enter a search query using a term such as 'market', 'peddler', or 'vendor'. Among the material to be found are 'Street Cries and Criers of New York (1938)' and 'Life in the Harlem Markets (1938)'.


Other Cyber Journals

Farmer's Market Online - a combined cyber journal and virtual farmers market -- for small-scale family farms and ranches, or producers of specialty foods and crafts. 


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