DEFINITION OF TERMS

Public Market - is a year-round, carefully crafted, intentional and diverse medley of owner-operated shops, stalls and day tables. Public Markets
exist to fulfill a public purpose, showcase a community’s unique character and culture while serving its everyday shopping needs.
Supermarket - is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food, beverages and household products, organized into sections and shelves. It
is larger and has a wider selection than earlier grocery stores, but is smaller and more limited in the range of merchandise than a hypermarket or
big-box market.
Hypermarket - is a retail store that combines a department store and a grocery supermarket. Often a very large establishment, hypermarkets
offer a wide variety of products such as appliances, clothing, and groceries. Hypermarkets offer shoppers a one-stop shopping experience.
Palengke - is a local variant of the Spanish word palenque, literally meaning “palisade or stockade” and by extension the area enclosed by such
a structure for defense, public festivals or some other purpose. A palengke is usually composed of several dozen stalls arranged in rows under a
shared roof.
Spatial Design - is the design of the spaces within buildings, within city streets, public spaces and service areas. It is the design of movement
and how the human population flows within those spaces. Humans move in a particular way that is well-researched, and spatial design caters to
this human flow. It helps guide the public within spaces.
Socio-cultural - seeks to understand why people act as they do base on the influences of their social and cultural factors which means common
traditions, habits, patterns and beliefs present in a population group.
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) - can be broadly defined as a contractual agreement between the Government and a private firm targeted
towards financing, designing, implementing and operating infrastructure facilities and services that were traditionally provided by the public
sector. It embodies optimal risk allocation between the parties – minimizing cost while realizing project developmental objectives.