Top 10 Public Markets/Mercados in North America: Amazing Public Spaces in Canada, the US, and Mexico

Описание: Today's video focuses on a key institution found in cities all over the world and throughout history: the massive, bustling, centrifuges of activity and diversity that are public markets.

Central markets/mercados have been at the heart of cities forever; you could almost say that mercantile exchange is the basic reason cities exist. Urban commerce has changed rapidly over the last 75 years, with the adoption of the automobile leading to dispersion of commercial activity to suburban malls and industrial hinterlands, and the recent rapid adoption of e-commerce and online shopping.

Yet, all over the world, central markets continue to thrive. They're amazing public spaces, and they're a forum for shoppers to come face to face with farmers, craftspeople, fishmongers, buskers, and butchers. Some of the world's most visited places are public markets, including the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul and La Boqueria in Barcelona. People come for the smells, the sights, the sounds, the flavors...and definitely the people-watching.

Today's video spans North America and includes stops at:
The Ferry Building (San Francisco)
West Side Market (Cleveland)
Pike Place Market (Seattle)
Market Square (San Antonio)
Mercado La Cruz (Queretaro)
Grand Central Market (LA)
Marche Jean-Talon (Montreal)
Mercado La Merced (CDMX)
Reading Terminal Market (Philadelphia)
St. Lawrence Market (Toronto)
Findlay Market (Cincinnati)
The Forks (Winnipeg)
Charleston City Market

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Links referenced:
https://www.travelandleisure.com/attr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...


Photo Credits:
Market montage: Video by Thierry BEUVE from Pixabay, Video by Tibor Janosi Mozes from Pixabay
Reading Market food court By Bruce Andersen - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Ochs (Reading) By Bruce Andersen - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Inside Reading By Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Oaxaca 20 Nov interior By ProtoplasmaKid - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Hall of Meats By ProtoplasmaKid - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Mole de Oaxaca By Eve Flor - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Oaxacan chapulines (crickets) By DavidConFran - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Benito Juarez De Nsaum75 de Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Granville Isl Market By Jay Esplana - Granville Island Public Market, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Embarcardero freeway By GeraldPHawkins - This file has been extracted from another file: San Francisco Skyline with Embarcadero Feb 1982., CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Ferry Bldg Interior By Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Cowgirl Creamery By Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
SF Farmers Market By Daderot - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Tortas By Wotancito - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Sonora goats By Carlos Adampol Galindo from DF, México - Mercado de Sonora, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Sonora items By Maurice Marcellin - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Central de Abasto hallway By AlejandroLinaresGarcia - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Scene at Central de Abasto By Set Domínguez - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Central fruit corridor By ProtoplasmaKid - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Central entry gate By ProtoplasmaKid - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Herbal By AlejandroLinaresGarcia - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
St Lawrence thumb By DXR - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
La Merced thumb By Comisión Mexicana de Filmaciones from México D. F., México - Mercado de Lamerced, Ciudad de México, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Music:
CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)

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