Keeping space public: Times Square (New York) and the Senegalese peddlers

This paper explores the public nature of Times Square's physical and represented (TV, internet, press) spaces through an analysis of the techniques used by Senegalese male peddlers to sell souvenirs to the visiting tourists. Whereas a number of scholars denounce the Disneyfication of Times Squa...

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Main Author: Stéphane Tonnelat
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités 2007-03-01
Series:Cybergeo
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/4792