About The Open Air Market Network

We protect what we care for and we care for what we understand.

This website should help you better understand the functions, importance, and variety of street markets and merchants as well as the larger social context in which they are found. This knowledge should be useful to merchants, shoppers, travelers, policy makers and academics of all types, law, business, social science, consumer researchers, historians and anyone else with an interest in this age-old form of trade.

We hope you can join with us to learn about and celebrate this important economic and social institution. We invite you to contribute to this website. The structure is simple:

-Discussion…of everything having to do with markets (once you’ve registered).
-Links to Markets, post your favorite market (once you’ve registered).
-Market Magazine, photos, advice for merchants and others, job postings, topics you would find in your local newspaper.
-Market Journal, some topics similar to MM but more scholarly discussions suited to urban planners, humanities, policy makers, social scientists, law and legal studies, consumer research, business, etc.
-Events, browse events and post your events (once you’ve registered).

Anyone can visit this website without the need to register. But if you want to add content such as a link or post in a discussion forum or if you wish to make a comment on a blog, you will need to register (found in the menu on the left). Those who want more involvement with OPENAIR such as uploading files, creating a node website for a market, writing a blog, adding images, etc. should go through 'about' to email a request to take on editorial responsibilities (appropriate to your interests and time).

We welcome your comments and suggestions regarding this, the new version of Openair. Those interested in content from the old page can access it below. Please be patient with our new page, register and work with us to make it the most useful in the world.
Thanks!

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About The Open Air Market Network