The resilience of shopping centres: An analysis of retail resilience strategies in Lisbon, Portugal

Guimarães, Pedro

doi:10.2478/mgr-2018-0013

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“…The incorporation of authenticity in retail is not new but has been gaining relevance. The highly dynamics of the sector (Cachinho & Barata-Salgueiro, 2016;Guimarães, 2018b) has led to the appearance and gain of importance of new retail formats, commercial practices and centralities. Simultaneously, traditional retail formats, such as small groceries, have been disappearing; former personal connections between retailers and clients have been substituted by cash and carry practices and some traditional centres of commerce declined in detriment of other areas.…”

Section: Finding Authenticity Within Retailmentioning

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Unfolding authenticity within retail gentrification in Mouraria, Lisbon

Guimarães

2021

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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Retail gentrification is gaining relevance to study the transformation of several urban districts. In this article we explore the connections between this process and the appropriation and use of the elements of authenticity of a given urban district. Drawing upon the production standpoint, we based our research on the objective, constructivist and existential perspective of the concept of authenticity. We developed fieldwork on Mouraria, a traditional neighbourhood of Lisbon city centre, affected by gentrification as a consequence of a strong growth of tourism in the last decade. Information was collected about the size and evolution of the commercial fabric and business owners were interviewed. Its treatment allows to gather three set of elements that were considered as representative of the authenticity of Mouraria: community values, multiculturality and urban features. The way retail spaces use these elements is diverse and intertwined with the different perspectives of authenticity and, on the part of business owners, arises as a management practice. Although Mouraria can be currently placed within an early stage of retail gentrification, the current pace of retail change and gentrification occurring in the neighbourhood may led to a wider replacement of the commercial fabric with detrimental consequences for local residents.

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Section: Finding Authenticity Within Retailmentioning

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Unfolding authenticity within retail gentrification in Mouraria, Lisbon

Guimarães

2021

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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“…In the first stage, developers associated with real estate built shopping centres, whose precincts were exploited as mere real estate assets (Cachinho, 2002), as individual stores within the retail precinct were sold to individual retailers who, thus, opened a store from a specific retail typology without concern for the overall tenant mix of the shopping centre (Guimarães, 2018). The second stage occurred in the 1980s, with an improvement of the design of new retail precincts and with the introduction of a planned tenant mix and anchored stores.…”

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The role of shopping centres in the metropolization process in Fortaleza (Brazil) and Lisbon (Portugal)

Gonçalves¹,

Guimarães²,

Cachinho³

2020

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Considering that shopping centres are increasingly connected with global capital flows, this article focuses on the role of this retail concept in the process of metropolization. Using Lisbon and Fortaleza metropolises, we have developed a case study methodology to unfold the relationship between the spatial dissemination of shopping centres and the evolution of both metropolises. We have concluded that internationalisation of capital through investments in the shopping centres has produced urban-based impacts, visible both in the production of new centralities and in the consolidation of existing ones, which as a whole strengthens and enhances the metropolization of the studied areas.

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“…This delay is explained by intertwined social and political reasons (Barata-Salgueiro 1996). Until 1974, the country was under the influence of a dictatorial regime that favoured protective measures against the entrance of foreign capital, which did not encourage any investment of large retail developers (Guimarães 2018c). In addition, the low purchasing power of the Portuguese population was also decisive.…”

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The Evolution of Old Shopping Centres in the Town Centre of Braga, Portugal

Guimarães¹

2020

JURA

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Cities are innovative places. Retail is one of the key features that better define them. In this paper, we study one of the most dynamic retail concepts ― shopping centres. Using a case study methodology, we analyse the main features that characterise the evolution of shopping centres located in the main town centre of Braga, a medium-sized city in the northwest of Portugal. Data from fieldwork conducted by the author in 2017 in 16 shopping centres was compared with pre-existent databases from 1995 and 2008. Findings of this paper are in line with previous studies on the same city and they show that a marked downward trend is affecting the large majority of the shopping centres analysed, which is reflected on the high vacancy rates and changes in the importance of some retail categories, causing structural modifications in the tenant mix and questioning the economic viability of several of these retail precincts.

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The resilience of shopping centres: An analysis of retail resilience strategies in Lisbon, Portugal

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

Unfolding authenticity within retail gentrification in Mouraria, Lisbon

Unfolding authenticity within retail gentrification in Mouraria, Lisbon

The role of shopping centres in the metropolization process in Fortaleza (Brazil) and Lisbon (Portugal)

The Evolution of Old Shopping Centres in the Town Centre of Braga, Portugal

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