Spatial resilience and urban planning: Addressing the interdependence of urban retail areas
Kärrholm, Mattias LU
; Nylund, Katarina
LU
and Prieto de la Fuente, Paulina
LU
(2014)
In Cities
p.121-130
- Abstract
- In this article we look at examples of three predominant kinds of Swedish retail places – the pedestrianised city centre, the neighbourhood centre and the regional shopping mall – all of which play important (winning or losing) roles in contemporary retail development. This investigation is based on an empirical study of the Malmö region (in southern Sweden) and the findings suggest that the different retail areas are developing independently following the logic of their own business. They have failed to relate their business to the retailscape of the urban region. We also develop spatial resilience as a concept that can be used to acknowledge the interdependence of different retail areas in discussions of urban and regional planning. We... (More)
- In this article we look at examples of three predominant kinds of Swedish retail places – the pedestrianised city centre, the neighbourhood centre and the regional shopping mall – all of which play important (winning or losing) roles in contemporary retail development. This investigation is based on an empirical study of the Malmö region (in southern Sweden) and the findings suggest that the different retail areas are developing independently following the logic of their own business. They have failed to relate their business to the retailscape of the urban region. We also develop spatial resilience as a concept that can be used to acknowledge the interdependence of different retail areas in discussions of urban and regional planning. We argue that more fluid or associative means of stabilisation seem to be overlooked in the present strategies for retail resilience, leaving more classical network stabilization as the only means of choice. (Less)
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- author
- Kärrholm, Mattias
LU
; Nylund, Katarina
LU
and Prieto de la Fuente, Paulina
LU
- publishing date
- 2014
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Spatial resilience, Retail, Urban planning, Scale, Spatial topologies, Malmö
- in
- Cities
- issue
- 36
- pages
- 121 - 130
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84888824436
- ISSN
- 0264-2751
- project
- Replacis, Retail planning for Cities Sustainability
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 34b04e47-158b-4dfc-90fa-8d626a22b28c (old id 4248299)
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