MMPBreines, MarkusDahinden, JanineJonsson, Anders, 1973-Lindmäe, MariaMadella, MarcoMenet, JoannaSchapendonk, Jorisvan Eck, EmilMelik, Rianne vanWatson, Sophie2023-07-212023-07-212022MMP, Breines M, Dahinden J, Jónsson G, Lindmäe M, Madella M, Menet J, Schapendonk J, Van Eck E, Van Melik R, Watson S. Re-producing public space: the changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets. Urban Geogr. 2022;43(6):878-85. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2022.20546040272-3638http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57637In 2020, nation states across Europe restricted access to, and use of, public space to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As almost all public spaces in Europe were consequently affected by restrictive measures, so too did outdoor retail markets drastically change. Some had to close down completely, whereas others operated under the sway of severe limitations for traders and customers. By re-engaging with the work of the late Michael Sorkin, it could be argued that the effects of COVID-19 add another dimension to the “end” or “death” of public space. In this paper, we shift attention to the tactics and strategies of one category of public figures behind the everyday production of markets, the traders, to show that markets in Spain, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the Netherlands did not simply stop functioning as public spaces. Rather, they took on different forms that extended spatially beyond their physical boundaries. These transformations allowed for the continuation of the social and political dimensions of public space.application/pdfeng© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2054604European marketstacticsstrategiestradersinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess