THE COMMERCE AND THE PRODUCTION OF THE URBAN SPACE

Abstract

The objective of this article is to contribute with the studies concerning the joints between commerce and city in the measure where the appearance of new commercial forms has an striking in the process of production of the urban space. Functioning, relations social, merchandises, movements internal and external, and everything what of the life to the traditional markets, fairs and other said types of commerce, they are each time more attractive to the point of if becoming, today, in different, that it resists in way what if became homogeneous, the such as the forms that shelters the called modern commerce, as shopping centers. This dynamics of the commerce motivated a in progress research, which comes studying the paper of the markets, the fairs, the grocery, the diverse galleries and other types of commerce, which, historically, they incur into changes in the city. The starting point of the analyses is the markets and the fairs surviving in way to the pressure it growth of the metropolis, a time transformed into leisure centers (cultural, gastronomical, tourist, etc.). The text privileges the first part of the research; systemize a survey of bibliographical sources/theoreticians, especially to those related to the historical development of the commerce, of the unfolding of the commercial exchanges that, to the few, demand shelters for the permanent functioning in the city.