Bazaar and Temporary Urbanism: Studying The Everyday Urbanism in The Case of Jamalpur Natural Market

Abstract

The modern Indian city is essentially defined by its dynamic state, the communal domain, and informality, which are its people’ mobility and placemaking in the form of festivals, rituals, spontaneous bazaars (markets), and events. Indian cities are not just about brick and mortar. Their spatiality is defined by metal rods, hanging threads, plastic sheets, wooden boxes, tin, jute, etc. Since it demonstrates simplicity, clarity, and economy in its creation, informality is not usually connected with disorder. It has been the most significant phenomena in recent years for re-establishing the urban realm and adding spatial aspects. In the latter phases of a city’s development, informality will undoubtedly persist for a very long time and continue to have an impact on how space is created. The spatial organisation of the city is the result of coordinated activities, particularly human-scale economic transactions, the diversity of units, and the spatiality of mass creation of space. Complex spatial components and interactions define the urban facade, boundaries, and public space of the modern city, blurring the static constructed forms. Our most fundamental form of transportation, walking, has been entirely neglected in the rising reign of the automobile. No mention is made of the informal bazaars, which have been a core part of our urbanity, culture, and nature, in favour of the motorised street, which has replaced the pedestrianised streets and the nature of our traditional bazaars. The collective realm within the city is described as a social phenomenon rather than just a morphological model because one observes the acquisition of spaces within the city structure by informal elements, whether in the nature of housing as slums or economic activity as pathari, redis, tehbazaari, etc. Due to its operations in the communal world, the city is felt. Buildings do not move, but the facade plays an important role as a backdrop for the dynamic activities happening on the street. The informal and formal come together in commerce and trade, to form a market system, supplementing each other, as their interdependence is necessary for both, the economic structure and the social city to function.