Digital and urban spaces: Oxymoron or binomial? Urban transformations in the digital era

Falco, Stefano De

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“…On the other hand, the impact of online retailing was interpreted differently by the shopping centre industry and academia. The International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC, 2015) and many scholars (De Falco, 2019; Rao, 2019; Singleton, Dolega, Riddlesden, & Longley, 2016; Weltevreden, 2007; Weltevreden & van Rietbergen, 2009) argued that the rise of online retailing stimulates complex transformations of the material shopping space rather than a simple “apocalyptic” replacement. Florida (2017) raised several possible scenarios where vacant shopping centres were reconfigured into community hubs, co‐working space, educational institutions, and so forth amid the rise of online retailing.…”

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Unravelling material/digital shopping space: An assemblage approach

Rao

2020

Geography Compass

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In this paper, I propose a new retail typology to explore emerging shopping space through the lens of assemblage thinking. The recent rise of online retailing has stimulated substantial net-closures of brick-and-mortar shops-what some call the "retail apocalypse". While being widely covered by the news media, the impact of online retailing on shopping space receives little attention in existing research. There is, in particular, a lack of a retail typology that regards online retailing as a form of shopping space. The current four primary typologies of scale, retail offer, control, and morphology are biased towards material shopping centres (agglomeration of shops). In an attempt to tackle this issue, I introduce Deleuzian assemblage theory. Assemblage prioritises interrelation, transformation, and difference, and suggests that both the virtual and actual are real and they can morph into a whole. In light of assemblage, I redefine a retail type as a "diagram" depicting how some shopping spaces work in general while still being geared to the particularity of each instance, and I focus on the "interface" between people and shops. This diagrammatic typology of interface could thus be adapted to emergent and diversified material, digital, and material/digital shopping spaces.

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Unravelling material/digital shopping space: An assemblage approach

Rao

2020

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“…Their fundamental function is to provide legal services, draw up intellectual property rights, draw up business plans for activities in the field of the digital economy, open digital enterprises, provide public services through digital technologies, etc. (De Falco, 2019).…”

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Technological Dynamism And Digital Transformation Of Modern Economics

Krasota¹

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Let’s (not) Go Outside: Grindr, Hybrid Space, and Digital Queer Neighborhoods

Miles

2021

The Urban Book Series

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Developments in mobile digital technologies are disrupting conventional understandings of space and place for smartphone users. One way in which location-based media are refiguring previously taken-for-granted spatial traditions is via GPS-enabled online dating and hook-up apps. For sexual minorities, these apps can reconfigure any street, park, bar, or home into a queer space through a potential meeting between mutually attracted individuals, but what does this signify for already-existing queer spaces? This chapter examines how smartphone apps including Grindr, Tinder, and Blued synthesize online queer encounter with offline physical space to create a new hybrid terrain predicated on availability, connection, and encounter. It is also a terrain that can sidestep established gay neighborhoods entirely. I explore how this hybridization impacts on older, physically rooted gay neighborhoods and the role that these neighborhoods have traditionally played in brokering social and sexual connection for sexual minorities. Few would deny that location-based apps have come to play a valuable role in multiplying opportunities for sexual minorities. However, the stratospheric rise of these technologies also provokes questions about their impact on embodied encounter, queer community, and a sense of place. A decade on from Grindr’s release, this chapter evaluates the impact of location-based media on gay spaces and reflects on what the increasing hybridization of online and offline spaces for same-sex encounter might mean for queer lives of the future.

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Digital and urban spaces: Oxymoron or binomial? Urban transformations in the digital era

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Unravelling material/digital shopping space: An assemblage approach

Unravelling material/digital shopping space: An assemblage approach

Technological Dynamism And Digital Transformation Of Modern Economics

Let’s (not) Go Outside: Grindr, Hybrid Space, and Digital Queer Neighborhoods

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