Mercado público de Santarém: o mercado como espaço de sociabilidade e requalificação urbana

Abstract

The Public Market assumes a crucial role in the history of the city from the act of exchange, commercial or otherwise, admitting a character of fundamental sociability for urban vitality. A space for social, cultural, commercial and ideological production, it is an equipment that provides countless spheres of encounter and allows these relationships to be perpetuated. Based on this, we seek to analyze the connection between market and culture, having the city of Santarém, Pará, as an object of analysis, in order to propose a public market from the cultural dynamics of the place as well as the requalification of the urban space in question.