a b s t r a c tDespite the plethora of studies on the behavior and values of consumers, research in the social sciences tends to sideline the role of the cultural dimension of consumption in the assessment of vitality and resilience of urban retail systems. However, given the tendency for retailers to make consumers a key element in their strategies, the cultural approach seems to be a valuable alternative to firm-centric analysis. This paper seeks to face this challenge mobilizing the lens of Consumer Culture Theory (CCT). The aim is to show why consumerscapes matter in the assessment of urban retail resilience. According to Arnould (2005), CCT allows us to capture the motivating social and cultural contexts of retail patronage and purchasing behaviors and the myriad of motivating factors behind the retail purchase decision. People have a variety of projects that they tend to realize through shopping practices and consumption, and retailers offer the range of resources they need to accomplish such projects. Bearing these ideas in mind, we suggest that in order to assess the resilience of urban retailing we need to know the extent to which the different shopping districts provide consumers with the range of resources they want so as to fulfill their projects, and how retailers and public authorities can, in the long term, sustain or improve the levels of consumer satisfaction. These ideas are discussed both in a theoretical and empirical way supported by the data collected from consumer surveys carried out in three neighborhood shopping districts in Greater Lisbon.
Neste pequeno ensaio sobre o consumidor na cidade pós-modernadesenvolveram-se essencialmente três ideias. Em primeiro lugar, procurou demonstrar-se que a metrópole contemporânea se pode caracterizar, essencialmente, comoum centro de consumo. Consumo que é elevado ao estatuto de espectáculo pelosdiferentes actores urbanos. Enquanto centro de consumo, a metrópole pós-modernaalimenta-se de dois tipos de paisagens: a cityscape, o ambiente construído ou a arquitectura física da cidade, e a mindscape, as paisagens interiores, ou da alma, produtoda espacialidade das práticas quotidianas. As primeiras fornecem os palcos e os cená-rios necessários à representação dos consumidores, as segundas escrevem os textosque servem de guião à representação.Em segundo lugar, defendeu-se a ideia que na sociedade urbana pós-moderna,os consumidores se tornaram, simultaneamente, espectadores e actores. Conjugandoa faceta de flâneur, de viajante contemplativo, com a de persona implicada na representação e nas experiências de consumo, transformaram-se na figura de consumactores. Para se poder captar esta multidimensionalidade do consumidor pós-moderno,sugere-se o abandono da tradicional segmentação em múltiplos nichos de mercado,e que passemos a ver o indivíduo de forma integrada, respeitando a sua complexaestrutura bio-psico-social, que faz dele uma pessoa.Por último, defende-se também que para captar o espírito do consumactor precisamos de investigá-lo no seu habitat. Nómada de espírito, pela sua condição deviajante contemplativo, empenhado em obter prazer estético na experiência superficial das intensidades e no fluxo das imagens, o consumactor transita, deambula, passeia-se por múltiplos palcos, mas nutre especial simpatia pelos centros comerciais.Feitos de simulações, arranjos cenográficos, jogos de sedução e possibilidades, oscentros comerciais criam a ambiance ideal para a comunicação tribal, o espectáculoe a representação. Aos olhos do consumactor nenhum outro lugar na cidade parececonseguir sublimar melhor a sua actuação, razão pela qual fazem destes morada,lugar de encontro e de celebração.
Recently, the phenomenon of social acceleration, which has profound impacts on everyday life, has attracted some attention from social scientists. At the same time, an increased engagement with social practices that are related to slowing down has also been highlighted, thereby unveiling an inherent tension between fast and slow times in contemporary societies. However, little attention has been paid to how fast and slow times are spatially dispersed and rooted.This study contributes to current discussions on the pace of life by considering the dynamics of speeding up and slowing down in the everyday life of residents in a neighborhood of an edge city and the role played by local resources in the performance of everyday life practices. We undertook our study in the Colinas do Cruzeiro neighborhood, in the municipality of Odivelas in the North of Lisbon's metropolitan area, where we conducted 21 in-depth narrative interviews with residents with the purpose of understanding the spatiotemporal organization of their daily lives and the role of the neighborhood's resources.Our results identify four different timestyles among the interviewees, all of them fluctuating between fast and slow temporalities in different ways. Thereafter, we identify and describe the main practices of speeding up and slowing down in the interviewees' everyday life and the local resources, which are mobilized in Colinas do Cruzeiro in order to perform these practices. We give some conclusions after a brief discussion of the results. Our main argument is that local resources play a vital role in an individual's ability to Time & Society 0(0) 1-24 ! The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Downloaded from speed up or slow down and therefore more attention must be paid as to how local resources can become temporal advantages.
RESUMO -a mudança sempre moldou os sistemas comerciais, mas nas últimas déca-das a aceleração do seu ritmo fez com que, em muitas cidades, estes entrassem em desequilíbrio e deixassem de responder com eficiência às necessidades de abastecimento dos diferentes grupos de consumidores. Partindo do pressuposto que o comércio é um elemento vital à sustentabilidade urbana e que o planeamento pode contribuir para o seu desenvolvimento mais eficiente, neste artigo apresenta-se o quadro conceptual e metodológico do Projeto rePLaCis para avaliar as vulnerabilidades e os níveis de resiliência dos sistemas comerciais urbanos. assim, o artigo comporta duas partes. na primeira faz-se uma análise das principais mudanças sofridas pelo comércio na cidade nas últimas décadas e discute-se o conceito de resiliência tendo em vista a sua aplicação aos sistemas comerciais. na segunda apresenta-se o quadro conceptual e metodológico usado no projeto. encerra-se com umas breves notas finais sobre as potencialidades e limitações do modelo, enquanto ferramenta para a avaliação da vitalidade dos sistemas comerciais na perspetiva da sustentabilidade e da resiliência urbanas.Palavras-chave: rePLaCis; sistema comercial; resiliência; sustentabilidade urbana.ABSTRACT -Urban retail systems in times of turbulence: Levels of vulnerability and resilience. Change has always been a significant attribute of urban retail systems. However, in recent decades, not only has the pace of these changes been dramatically intensified but also their scope has broadened significantly, engendering large imbalances in the structure and spatial organization of urban retail systems. Often, these changes not only challenge the vitality and the economic viability of the retail systems but also jeopardize the sustainability of cities. Departing from the assumption that retailing as a key element of urban sustainability, and that planning policies can contribute to its efficient development, recebido: Julho, 2014. aceite: Maio 2015
The objective of this paper is to explore how different artistic practices work to alter the distribution of the senses, and consequently, the disposition, processes and practices of the situated surplus of urban places. While it has been acknowledged that artistic performances in public space generate specific appropriations of the urban environment, the role that specific sensorial channels play in these events is still underexplored. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted between 2012 and 2016 in Chiado, our study highlights how dance, music and architecture stimulate, invoke and highlight specific senses while rendering others unnoticed. This causes shifts in bodily rhythms, mood and attention to details in urban space. As certain corporeal isles are enacted through contemplation, the experience and appropriation of urban space is subject to change. A central tension in this matter is the fluctuation between visual and sonic spatialities.
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