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DTSA PUBLIC MARKET <br />DEVELOPMENT <br />THE BE1NER IS OF PUBLIC MARKETS <br />PUS <br />MART <br />' ''LJC <br />�F._�PACE5 <br />Placemaking practitioners concerned with the social life of public spaces and urban <br />revitalization of underserved communities - whether supported by government, the private <br />sector, or from community -based organizations - are beginning to recognize that new <br />definitions of what is understood as "urban revitalization' and "economic development" are <br />needed today. New strategies understand the importance of public spaces that connect <br />everything together, and that public gathering places are inextricably related to the <br />potential for economic opportunity and upward mobility. One of the most obvious, but <br />perhaps least understood, methods of enhancing social integration in public spaces and <br />encouraging upward mobility are public markets. Increasingly, community leaders and <br />enlightened local government leaders see public markets as a means of addressing some of <br />the more vexing problems of our cities: the need to bring people of different ethnic groups <br />and incomes together; the need to make inviting and safe public spaces; the need to ' <br />reinvigorate low- and moderate -income neighborhoods and to support small-scale <br />economic activity; the need to provide fresh, high -quality produce through farmers markets, <br />create spaces for cottage industry and makers to sell their products; and the need to <br />protect open space and preserve urban farms within and around cities. <br />s li <br />.g <br />