Cities are showcases of a people’s culture in the way that they frame fragments of everyday life within a human-made sense of place and a human-sized scale. According to Zukin, {1995:263} “… Culture has been reduced to a set of marketable images; commodity, theme park and fetish: culture is something that sells, something that is seen.” The market has always been a natural center; it is where the main produce of a city is traded, and it is always filled with everyday people living commonplace lives. As the market has expanded to accommodate the needs of growing cities, so too has the city grown to adjust to the onslaught of commercialism.
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