Southeast Asian Street Markets: Vendors Are the Protagonists

A pedestrian market street in Southeast Asia. Contrary to neatly planned pedestrian zones, the space here is primarily defined by vendors: both sides of the street are densely packed with fixed stalls and mobile carts, covered with plastic tarpaulins and sun umbrellas of various colors, varying in height and chaotic in color; a channel of about two meters is left in the middle, where people move at an extremely slow pace. Overhead, intertwined wires, strings of light bulbs, and fabric canopies hang, almost completely obscuring the sky. The ground is polished concrete and tiles, shiny from being trodden upon, with water stains. The ground floors of the buildings on both sides are completely obscured by stalls, with only the arcades and louvered windows of the second floor and above visible. There is smoke and steam in the air.
Avoid: arranging stalls neatly and uniformly, clearing overhead wires and tarpaulins, making the passage wide and smooth, using low-saturation colors.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一條東南亞的徒步街市。與規劃整齊的徒步區相反,這裡的空間主要由攤販定義:街道的兩側是密集的固定攤位與流動推車,搭著各色的塑膠帆布與遮陽傘,高度不一、顏色雜亂;中間留出約兩公尺的通道,人流以極慢的速度移動。上方懸掛著交錯的電線、燈泡串與布幔,幾乎看不見天空。地面是被踩得發亮的水泥與磁磚,有水漬。兩側建築的一樓被攤位完全遮蔽,只看得見二樓以上的騎樓與百葉窗。空氣中有煙與蒸氣。避免:把攤位排列整齊統一、清空上方的電線與帆布、讓通道寬敞順暢、使用低彩度的顏色。