On marketplaces

This is a first attempt to list some important parameters on marketplaces.
Functional parameters:
- Types of goods and specialization of marketplace (e.g. food, clothes, computer …)
- Retail / wholesale commerce
- Ways of goods’ exchange
- ….
Spatial parameters:
- Spatial characteristics (kiosk, shop, covered market, arcade, shopping center, shopping mall, vending machine, market square, street market, shopping street, flea market, street vendor…)
- Role in urban fabric (land uses, movements, public/private space…)
- Immovable, movable, e-market
- ….
Social parameters:
- Socioeconomic networks
- Labour
- Gender
- …
Economic parameters:
- Connection with production
- Centrally controlled / Free market
- Formality / informality / illegality
- Scale and type of businesses
- …
Time parameter:
- Permanency / temporality
- …
Historical - cultural parameters
(agora, arcade, forum, suq, bazar, carsi, bezesten, mercado...)

P.S. Waiting for contributions....