
Who needs shopping malls?
By Ton Salman There are markets. There are big markets. And there is the superlative degree of market. Arguably, that is the Feria de 16 de Julio, in El Alto, Bolivia. We are talking here a genuine street market: it has the stalls, the ambulant system, the vanishing of it all in the evening. The 16 de Julio is claimed to be the biggest in the Americas. It occupies a big chunk of El Alto, the new, still rapidly growing neighboring city of La Paz, on the highlands adjacent to Bolivia’s governmental seat La Paz (which is not Bolivia’s official …
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