FEIRA LIVRE: Territorialidade popular e cultura na metrópole contemporânea

Abstract

Abstract The Brazilian market place is a peculiar experience of street sociability. A kind of urban tradition which has became old-fashioned because the diffusion of automobile and modern retail, but in struggle to survive in the urban landscape. Through the popular territoriality of market places, we aim to develop a broad thinking about some general trends of contemporary metropolis, as a holder of new form of capital accumulation and present conditions of material survival, as well cultural claim and search of citizenship exercise. Key-Words: territoriality, culture, public space, modernity .