For Dorota... Public and Private has a fluid relationship in the case of your site - there are issues of land ownership? - by setting up stalls the people are effectively claiming public land...
The police do not function as they do here, there role is as peace keeper - they do not deal with land ownership or the people on the street...
Do the communities value ownership? what is the nature of possession - of land/ building/ space...
Street stalls - trading - networks of trade? movement issues?
how are goods moved through the city? a need for infrastructure?
...if you were to start to rationalise this you start to segment the site? in finding an 'order' out of the 'chaos' would it dilute the culture/society that exists? - is there an 'order' already evident?
...self sustained communities - what happens at their boundaries? would you look to define the edges of areas? - would this be for better/ worse? what is the nature of family? you mentioned that a temple or a tomb are two ways to ensure that the land they have come to occupy will not be repossessed?
I hope these help? ... i've written them straight from the scribbles in my notebook!
Let me know if you are unclear about anything i have written and hopefully i can explain in more detail!
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