Exploring the geography of retail success and decline: A case study of the Liverpool City Region

Dolega, Les; Lord, Alex

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2019.102456

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“…Other reasons for abandoning commercial premises listed by the respondents to a great extent correspond to the findings from previous studies, especially in regard to the post-socialist cities (e.g. specific problems related to transition and governance issues), with an exception -there was no mention of online shopping (See: Dolega & Lord, 2020;Kita et al, 2017). The urban core shopping area can be seen as one of key elements in how citizens perceive the urban space (Nagy, 2001).…”

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“…Nevertheless, it should also be noted that economic development trends, with their impact on purchasing power, have affected the quantity of vacant commercial premises. For instance, Dolega & Lord (2020) pointed to an increase in the average vacancy rate following the 2008 worldwide economic crisis.…”

Section: The Causes Of Abandonment Of Commercial Premisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further retreat and decline of retail in urban core has been amplified by the recent rapid increase of online shopping which has significantly changed the way consumer goods are bought and sold. As Dolega & Lord (2020) write, many traditional retail businesses have perished due to the rise of online sales, and e-commerce will have a most profound effect on the retail landscape. The e-commerce market in Central and Eastern Europe has also been developing dynamically in recent years (Kita, Szczyrba, Fiedor, & Letal, 2017).…”

Section: The Causes Of Abandonment Of Commercial Premisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hollowing out and revitalising a post-socialist city centre: Vacant commercial premises in Zagreb

Kaufmann¹,

Kliček²,

Bišćević³

et al. 2020

Geogr. Pol.

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The problem of vacant commercial premises has been present in some central areas of transitional cities of Central and Eastern Europe, which have decayed in parallel to spatially uneven urban development processes and/or suburban expansion. This research aims to contribute to systematic analysis of the reasons for abandonment of commercial premises in the centre of Zagreb and exploration of revitalisation strategies, with an emphasis on the significance of citizen participation for successful planning and management of the city. The research was undertaken in two phases in May, 2016. The first included mapping of vacant commercial premises on selected streets in Zagreb’s centre. Next, using a non-probabilistic sample, a questionnaire survey was carried out face-to-face and online (N = 200). The results of the questionnaire survey showed the respondents’ awareness of the complex set of reasons underlying the occurrence and expansion of this phenomenon in the city centre and the need for urban regeneration, including a stronger regulatory framework at the city level.

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Hollowing out and revitalising a post-socialist city centre: Vacant commercial premises in Zagreb

Kaufmann¹,

Kliček²,

Bišćević³

et al. 2020

Geogr. Pol.

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“…In contemporary societies, the drive of competitiveness and attraction to overcome the process of decline explains the rehabilitation of town centers and retail systems in response to external shocks such as out-of-town shopping, online sales, economic crisis or physical obsolescence by reposition, redefining the strategic priorities to attract new customers, reinventing themselves, reorienting their offer, focusing on the visitor's economy, leisure or convenience, being an example of retail adaptive resilience [33,52,53] and a sign of urban resilience as a whole.…”

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Public Policy for Sustainability and Retail Resilience in Lisbon City Center

Salgueiro

Guimarães

2020

Sustainability

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International organizations, public authorities and researchers have increasingly been concerned with urban resilience and sustainability. We focus on the triangle retail, urban resilience and city sustainability, aiming to uncover how cities have coped with retail challenges to increase their resilience towards a sustainable path, highlighting the role played by public policy. The case study asks, is Central Lisbon strongly affected by processes of regeneration, touristification and gentrification, simultaneously with changes in retail. The analysis of planning and other policy documents complemented by fieldwork evidence shows a close link between public initiatives and private entrepreneurship and their impacts in the vitality of the core. The text shows that the policy outlined by local authorities to overcome the decline of the city center and to meet the aims of sustainability implies urban resilience. The transformation of retail is aligned with that vision and is supported its achievement, while the commercial fabric suffered an evolution from shopping to consumption spaces, polarized by culture and entertainment, targeting new consumers and lifestyles. However, new social and economic challenges arise due to escalating housing prices, change in retail supply, the excessive dependence of tourism and the danger of losing part of the city’s identity.

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“…(Kärrholm et al 2014). On the other hand, the high rate of empty or abandoned facilities must induce incentives to occupy spaces in order to a give a global image of an alive area (Dolega, Lord 2020), considering that public incentives for localization, like the reduction in local taxes, have been successful in other districts of Chieti. These dynamics are part of a larger and systemic vision through which the city must reconnect the relationship between the upper part and the lower part, through planning processes favored by the recent approval of the municipal commercial planning.…”

Section: The Development Of Trade In a Transit Area In Chieti Scalomentioning

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The Role of Commerce in the Main Urban Area of Abruzzo: an Intra-Urban Reading

Ferrari

Iacuone

Scorrano

et al. 2021

BSGI

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Since the 1950s, the urban structure of Abruzzo has gradually polarized on the area of Pescara-Chieti, as the expression of a series of location and settlement advantages. There, the trade sector, favoured by a period of expansion of large-scale commercial distribution, represented a powerful vehicle for territorial convergence and cohesion, contributing to the progressive process of marginalization of urban proximity trade. The aim of this work is to go beyond the opposition between suburban shopping center/central urban trade and to propose an interpretation at intra-urban scale that starts from peripheral neighbourhoods and peculiar spaces: They are able, in some cases, to better represent urban identity, but, above all, to provide a favourable observation point from which to promote a balanced and sustainable reorganization of the city.

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Exploring the geography of retail success and decline: A case study of the Liverpool City Region

Cited by 66 publications

References 33 publications

Hollowing out and revitalising a post-socialist city centre: Vacant commercial premises in Zagreb

Hollowing out and revitalising a post-socialist city centre: Vacant commercial premises in Zagreb

Public Policy for Sustainability and Retail Resilience in Lisbon City Center

The Role of Commerce in the Main Urban Area of Abruzzo: an Intra-Urban Reading

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