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Streetlife

Urban Retail Dynamics and Prospects

Conrad Kickert, Emily Talen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
368 Seiten
2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2481-4 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
Streetlife reflects on the purpose, value, and meaning of our long valued but often taken for granted urban storefronts.
Our street-level economy is undergoing dramatic change. Retailers are reeling from the rise of e-commerce, rising rents, and increasing storefront vacancies, along with a cultural shift from material to experiential consumerism. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to economic upheaval as commercial corridors and the small businesses they house face sweeping closures, bankruptcy, and job losses.

Streetlife brings together scholars who have been trying to make sense of the changing retail landscape at street level and what it means for urbanism’s future. Streetlife pays special attention to the varied responses and policies that have emerged to address the competing realities of small business loss and neighbourhood needs. With case studies from the United States, as well as contributions covering Canada and Europe, this book demystifies the logic behind street-level urban retail and calls for better plans, designs, policies, and innovations to bolster sales.

Streetlife shows that now, more than ever before, we need to understand what makes our storefronts tick, what awaits them, and what we can do as planners, designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to maintain retail as integral to urban lifestyle.

Conrad Kickert is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Buffalo. Emily Talen is a professor in the Social Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.

Introduction: The Urban Retail Predicament
Conrad Kickert and Emily Talen

Retail Trends and Transformations

The Life and Death of Retail: Insights from Firm Demography
Luc Anselin and Irene Farah

The Ups and Downs of Retail, 2000–2015
Kevin Credit, Irene Farah, and Luc Anselin

Commercial Gentrification: What Happens to Businesses and Services when the Neighborhood Changes?
Rachel Meltzer

The Case of E-Commerce

Bricks and Clicks
Liz Mack

The Changing Demand for Urban Retail Space: Evidence from Canada
Christopher Daniel and Tony Hernandez

Online Sales and the British Urban Retail Hierarchy
Colin Jones

The Survival of Mom-and-Pops

Small Business Survival: How and Why?
Vikas Mehta

Can Mom and Pop Stores Survive? A Survey of Small Retailers in Chicago
Emily Talen

What’s in a Chain?: On Hipness, Corporate Stores, and False Dichotomies in Urban Life
Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker

Retail, Place, and Place-Making

Retail Scenes
Hyesun Jeong and Terry Clark

Main Street Morphology, Adaptability, and Resilience
Rosa Danenberg

Retail in the Mix
Matthew Carmona

Toward Solutions

Curating Main Streets: The Factors of Success
Michael W. Mehaffy and Tigran Haas

The Spatial Logic of Urban Retail
Conrad Kickert

The Future of American Urban Retail Real Estate
Heather Arnold

Conclusion: Urban Retail Redefined
Conrad Kickert and Emily Talen

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 38 b&w illustrations, 15 b&w maps, 39 b&w figures, 33 b&w tables
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 520 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4875-2481-1 / 1487524811
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-2481-4 / 9781487524814
Zustand Neuware
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