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Public Marketplaces Promoting Resilience and Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (2 February 2021) | Viewed by 36746

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Alfonso Morales

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Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Interests: community-based economic planning; marketplaces and vendors; social theory; social change
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Marketplaces have changed the world. One example is how marketplaces facilitated cosmopolitanism in European history. Since the late 1960s, marketplaces in the U.S. have enjoyed a substantial resurgence triggered, in part, by middle-class interest in local food and economic changes that restructured consumption practices by introducing the cycle of product development and discount retail to sell new but older products. However, this purpose of marketplaces is complemented today by many other purposes, such as local food systems and food security, reducing food miles, enhancing public places, and increasing pedestrian access to retail, tourism, etc.

This Special Issue of Sustainability offers authors the opportunity to reflect on changes in marketplaces and on how, recently, they are being used to support a variety of public and private purposes, from immigrant households to corporate practices; and from fostering civil society to promoting individual opportunity while at the same time providing for community resilience. The issue welcomes empirical works and conceptual essays from anywhere in the world, which demonstrate how authors or their partners are leveraging multi-functional public marketplaces for a variety of purposes.

I encourage researchers and practitioners to submit original research articles, case studies, reviews, critical perspectives, and viewpoint articles on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Methodological aspects of urban marketplaces;
  • Marketplaces fostering resilience in the face of public health problems and catastrophic events;
  • The processes of assessing marketplace contributions to sustainability;
  • Stakeholder involvement in urban marketplaces;
  • The evolution of marketplaces, their history, and contemporary organization;
  • Lessons learned from research and practice of public markets;
  • Households and individual dynamics and the social/regulatory construction of marketplaces;
  • Conceptual connections of inclusion, resilience, and other ideas to marketplaces;
  • Organizational coordination in developing marketplaces;
  • Case studies of marketplaces, covering successes and failures as appropriate;
  • The evolution and future of urban marketplaces.

Dr. Alfonso Morales
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • value(s)
  • ethics
  • resilience
  • marketplace
  • regulation
  • economic
  • political
  • social Sustainability
  • household
  • development
  • growth
  • social change

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Editorial
Public Marketplaces Promoting Resilience and Sustainability
by Alfonso Morales
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6025; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116025 - 27 May 2021
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 2112
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Marketplaces and vendors weave together social integration, ecological awareness and caring, and economic inclusivity [...] Full article
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Citizen Scientist: Farm 2 Facts Supporting Farmers Markets
by Edna Ledesma, Arden He, Phillip Warsaw, Lauren Suerth, Alfonso Morales, Leah Rosenblum and Brian Wiedenfeld
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6162; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116162 - 30 May 2021
Cited by 4 | Viewed by 4080
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As multifunctional loci of local food economies and public activity, farmers markets impart diverse impacts on their surrounding communities. In response to the emerging scholarship on farmers markets, as well as the desires of market managers to buttress their decision-making with cogent data [...] Read more.
As multifunctional loci of local food economies and public activity, farmers markets impart diverse impacts on their surrounding communities. In response to the emerging scholarship on farmers markets, as well as the desires of market managers to buttress their decision-making with cogent data analysis, the Farm 2 Facts data collection toolkit was created by the University of Wisconsin-Madison to measure the economic, social, and ecological impacts of farmers markets. We document here the history of Farm 2 Facts. Through case studies of F2F members, we describe the ways in which individual markets, market organizations, and local governments use farmers markets as a means of achieving differing goals, as well as how Farm 2 Facts necessarily adapted to measure and support these goals. We argue that Farm 2 Facts is in a tight reciprocal relationship with market managers who become citizen scientists in order to support their managerial role and communicate the benefits of their markets. Given that market policy change is often the impetus for collecting data, empathy for the goals of market managers is inseparable from Farm 2 Facts. We find that a sensitivity to the dynamic needs of markets, an adaptive toolkit, and incorporating ongoing research into the toolkit are essential to supporting farmers market managers in their many duties. Full article
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On Farmers Markets as Wicked Opportunities
by Alfonso Morales
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6108; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116108 - 28 May 2021
Cited by 7 | Viewed by 1792
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Marketplaces are almost as old as humanity. They result from trade and trade is structured by political, religious, social, and economic needs. Overtime, marketplaces have woven together relational processes representing each of these, in order to host trade, social life, political life, and [...] Read more.
Marketplaces are almost as old as humanity. They result from trade and trade is structured by political, religious, social, and economic needs. Overtime, marketplaces have woven together relational processes representing each of these, in order to host trade, social life, political life, and all manner of economic activities. So, markets are bundles of activities tightly related reciprocally with, and in the context of social institutions. Likewise, marketplaces manifest expectations for how society sees itself and for how societies govern themselves. It is this framing opportunity which I exploit here. In this article I pursue the reconstruction of wicked problems to show how marketplaces are wicked opportunities. Wicked opportunity thinking can be applied to many other aspects of our contemporary life. Full article
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How Urban Planning Impacts Latino Vendor Markets
by Edna Ledesma
Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 5165; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095165 - 5 May 2021
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Flea markets and swap meets, classified here as Latino vendor markets (LVM), operate as social support systems for their communities. LVM are hubs of economic opportunity for business owners, yet they currently lack support from the field of urban planning. This paper explores [...] Read more.
Flea markets and swap meets, classified here as Latino vendor markets (LVM), operate as social support systems for their communities. LVM are hubs of economic opportunity for business owners, yet they currently lack support from the field of urban planning. This paper explores four LVM case studies in California and Texas. A mixed-methods approach was used which included site observations, geospatial analysis and surveys with over 200 vendors, customers, and market managers to explore the urban linkages of LVM. Key findings include that LVM are at risk of potential redevelopment; they lack accessibility and perpetuate car dependence; yet there are opportunities to support LVM through planning tools such as improvement districts. They present lessons for exploring the links between the public and private sectors in reinforcing the social, economic and political benefit of marketplaces in the city. Full article
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Markets in Municipal Code: The Case of Michigan Cities
by Amanda Maria Edmonds and Gerrit J. Carsjens
Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4263; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084263 - 12 Apr 2021
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Food’s place on the urban, municipal agenda has become an increasing focus in the emergent fields of food policy and food planning, whose leaders argue that food needs to be more explicitly added to the urban agenda. Yet, public food markets are a [...] Read more.
Food’s place on the urban, municipal agenda has become an increasing focus in the emergent fields of food policy and food planning, whose leaders argue that food needs to be more explicitly added to the urban agenda. Yet, public food markets are a food system activity that municipal governments have been long engaged in. Reports from leading health, planning, and food organizations assert that farmers markets—the dominant form of public retail food markets in the US today—should be explicitly included in zoning and other municipal codes to ensure that they can be created and sustained. Despite their popularity as a local sustainable food system and healthy food access strategy, it is unclear whether markets have been codified through municipalities’ planning and policy instruments, and research has largely not addressed this topic. This study aims to elicit whether markets have been codified into law, focusing on US municipal charters, codes and zoning ordinances, using Michigan, an upper Midwest state, as a case. After analyzing municipal documents to determine whether and where markets have been codified into law in ninety Michigan cities, this study concludes that markets are highly underrepresented in municipal policy, rarely defined in code, and mostly absent from zoning ordinances, even among those cities with currently operating markets. Market presence in code is, however, associated with the presence of historically operated markets. These findings raise questions about why markets are missing from codified food policy and what risks this poses to the future of markets. They also highlight the need to better document the market sector and underline the importance of including historic perspectives when examining the efficacy of current food policy efforts. Full article
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The Analysis of Local Marketplace Business on the Selected Urban Case—Problems and Perspectives
by Marko D. Petrović, Edna Ledesma, Alfonso Morales, Milan M. Radovanović and Stefan Denda
Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3446; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063446 - 20 Mar 2021
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Local marketplaces and street vendors represent an important segment of trade in a community and one of the initiators of the rural and peri-urban development. Agricultural and other products available at marketplaces and street vendors very often originate from a wider urban surrounding [...] Read more.
Local marketplaces and street vendors represent an important segment of trade in a community and one of the initiators of the rural and peri-urban development. Agricultural and other products available at marketplaces and street vendors very often originate from a wider urban surrounding or nearby villages, so both are also an important factor of the daily migrations, exchange of goods, services, and money on the relation suburb-downtown and village-town/city. This study aims to analyze the social segments of the organization and operation of marketplaces, to provide an insight into the contemporary market processes and decision-making, and also to illustrate the future tendencies of the market outcomes of this aspect of the business. Using qualitative data processing, the results of one of the first empirical research on this topic in Serbia and this part of Europe will be analyzed. The results will show the economic, social, and cultural impact that marketplaces have on people’s everyday life and the economy of Serbia, along with defining future development guidelines. Besides, the findings of this research may be used by local authorities, the economy, and communities for future strategic development planning of this market segment. The outcomes may have an impact on future research of other aspects of marketplaces depending on the difference of regions, on one side, and also alternative opportunities for local development in less-advantaged communities, on the other side. Moreover, this contributes to the identification of the differences in the marketplace business management and sheds light on future initiatives for the encouragement of this local/global process. Full article
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The Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of Farmers Markets: Recent Evidence from the US
by Phillip Warsaw, Steven Archambault, Arden He and Stacy Miller
Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3423; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063423 - 19 Mar 2021
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Farmers markets are regular, recurring gatherings at a common facility or area where farmers and ranchers directly sell a variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other locally grown farm products to consumers. Markets rebuild and maintain local and regional food systems, leading to [...] Read more.
Farmers markets are regular, recurring gatherings at a common facility or area where farmers and ranchers directly sell a variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other locally grown farm products to consumers. Markets rebuild and maintain local and regional food systems, leading to an outsized impact on the food system relative to their share of produce sales. Previous research has demonstrated the multifaceted impacts that farmers markets have on the communities, particularly economically. Recent scholarship in the United States has expanded inquiry into social impacts that markets have on communities, including improving access to fresh food products and increasing awareness of the sustainable agricultural practices adopted by producers, as well developing tools for producers and market stakeholders to measure their impact on both producers and communities. This paper reviews the recent scholarship on farmers markets to identify recent trends and synthesizes the current evidence describing the ways in which farmers markets contribute to the wellbeing of their communities, as well as identifying areas for additional future research. Full article
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