Covered markets

1.Tirana 2.City of Mexico 3.Athens

3. Damascus 4.Istanbul 5.Aleppo

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....

2 Αγορές και το όριο - 2 markets and the boundary

In 1964 the Green line separated the city in two sectors. The historical market of Nicosia (shown in the aerial photo as a complex of roofs) remained in the North sector. The need for a similar market in the South led to an architectural competition. Stauros Economou, designed in 1965 the new modern building for a second market (shown as a square building lower part of the photo) of a separated city. 

Agora

Agora in ancient Greek cities is an open space that served as a meeting ground for various activities of the citizens. The name, first found in the works of Homer, connotes both the assembly of the people as well as the physical setting; it was applied by the classical Greeks of the 5th century bc to what they regarded as a typical feature of their life: their daily religious, political, judicial, social, and commercial activity. The agora was located either in the middle of the city or near the harbour, which was surrounded by public buildings and by temples.
Britannica

Inventory of Nicosia Markets 1873 (from Louis Salavator)

1. Manufacters
2. Tailors
3. Calico, rugs, hides
4. European shoemakers
5. Shoemakers
6. Turkish shoes
7. Yarns
8. Cabinet makers
9. Carriages
10. Copper articles
11. Silversmiths
12. Ironware
13. Earthenware
14. Haberdashery
15. Taverns
16. Vegetables and meat
17. Fish
18. Halva (sweets)
19. Women
20. Cotton
21. Flour
22. Wheat and barley
23. Mules