Introduction : studying markets as spaces of contestation / Sara González
Markets of La Merced : new frontiers of gentrification in the historic centre of Mexico City / Víctor Delgadillo
Learning from La Vega Central : challenges to the survival of a publicly used (private) marketplace / Elke Schlack, Neil Turnbull and María Jesús Arce Sánchez
Resisting gentrification in traditional public markets :lessons from London / Sara González and Gloria Dawson
The contested public space of the tianguis street markets of Mexico City / Norma Angélica Gómez Méndez
Gourmet markets as a commercial gentrification model : the cases of Mexico City and Madrid / Luis Alberto Salinas Arreortua and Luz De Lourdes Cordero Gómez Del Campo
Neighbourhoods and markets in Madrid : an uneven process of selective transformation / Eva García Pérez, Elvira Mateos Carmona, Vincenzo Maiello and Alejandro Rodríguez Sebastián
Mercado Bonpland and solidarity production networks in Buenos Aires, Argentina / Victoria Habermehl, Nela Lena Gallardo Araya and María Ximena Arqueros
Public markets : spaces for sociability under threat? The case of Leeds' Kirkgate Market / Penny Rivlin and Sara González
Contested identities and ethnicities in the marketplace : Sofia's city centre between the East and the West of Europe / Stoyanka Andreeva Eneva
Popular culture and heritage in San Roque Market, Quito / Eduardo Kingman Garcés and Erika Bedón
Conclusions : international perspectives on the transformation of markets / Sara González.