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Meeting on the marketplace: on the integrative potential of The Hague Market

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  • Patrícia Schappo
  • Rianne van Melik

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Marketplaces are important commercial and gathering places in cities. After decades of decline and negligence, they are recently rediscovered as potential meeting grounds that bring different people together. Their integrative potential goes beyond the “ground level” of the market (with encounters between traders and visitors), also uniting different stakeholders (municipalities, traders, entrepreneurs, inhabitants, social institutions) joined around the market on an “organisational level”. Using The Hague Market in the Netherlands as case, and drawing on participant observation and semi-structured interviews, this paper investigates the integrative potential of the marketplace. It illustrates how the market indeed serves as an important meeting ground for external stakeholders, but does not (yet) unify the direct beneficiaries: the local government and market traders. Top-down government planning, previous conflicts, distrust, group loyalties, diverging business views and commercial competition are important factors hampering the integrative potential of The Hague Market.

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  • Patrícia Schappo & Rianne van Melik, 2017. "Meeting on the marketplace: on the integrative potential of The Hague Market," Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(3), pages 318-332, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjouxx:v:10:y:2017:i:3:p:318-332
    DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2016.1223741
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    1. Justyna Borucka & Piotr Czyż & Giorgio Gasco & Weronika Mazurkiewicz & Dorota Nałęcz & Marcin Szczepański, 2022. "Market Regeneration in Line with Sustainable Urban Development," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-19, September.
    2. Marko D. Petrović & Edna Ledesma & Alfonso Morales & Milan M. Radovanović & Stefan Denda, 2021. "The Analysis of Local Marketplace Business on the Selected Urban Case—Problems and Perspectives," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-15, March.
    3. Foster Opoku & David Forkuor & Kabila Abass, 2023. "Toward maximising profits from markets: an analysis of the management structure of markets in Kumasi, Ghana," SN Business & Economics, Springer, vol. 3(3), pages 1-18, March.
    4. Pedro Guimarães, 2019. "Exploring the Impacts of Gentrified Traditional Retail Markets in Lisbon in Local Neighbourhoods," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(6), pages 1-14, June.
    5. Gunvor Jónsson & Maria Lindmäe & Joanna Menet & Emil Van Eck, 2023. "‘ALL EYES ON ME’: The (In)Formal Barriers to Market Trade in Europe," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(2), pages 221-236, March.
    6. Emil van Eck & Rianne van Melik & Joris Schapendonk, 2020. "Marketplaces as Public Spaces in Times of The Covid‐19 Coronavirus Outbreak: First Reflections," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 111(3), pages 373-386, July.

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