Comparative retail structure of British and American cities: Cardiff(UK) and Charlotte (USA)

Lord, J. Dennis; Guy, Clifford M.

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“…This was given particular impetus in Swansea in the 1980s with the development of the Enterprise Zone retail park, now containing in excess of 44 000 square metres (gross oorspace) (West Glamorgan County Council, 1993). Similar processes have, however, also been evident in Cardiff (Lord and Guy, 1991), and the largest decentralised concentration of retailing at Culverhouse Cross is rapidly approaching the scale of the Swansea Enterprise Zone. At the same time, both cities have experienced the same array of economic, social and cultural changes discussed above.…”

Section: The Swansea and Cardiff Researchmentioning

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City-centre Revitalisation: Problems of Fragmentation and Fear in the Evening and Night-time City

2000

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Over the past 30 years the pre-eminent commercial status of the city centre in the retail system of British cities has been challenged by the competitive impact of retail decentralisation. A contemporaneous decentralisation of of ce and leisure activities has exacerbated the situation. At the same time, early redevelopment strategies have created signi cant degrees of spatial fragmentation between functions and the loss of a substantial residential population. In the contemporary social climate, these changes have resulted in negative implications for the perception of safety and the generation of fear and anxiety amongst all users of the city centre. Consequently, safety issues have accentuated the emerging problems of the city centres, particularly for evening and night-time activities. City-centre revitalisation strategies have increasingly aimed to extend 'vitality and viability' beyond the temporal divide associated with the '5pm ight'. This has involved the incorporation of the '24-hour city' concept. However, this strategy has proved problematic due to the negative perceptions of safety, which are associated with the emergence of an 'exclusionary' youth culture in many major cities in recent years. This paper seeks to examine the nature and scale of the obstacles to the revitalisation of the evening and night-time economy and culture of Swansea and Cardiff in order the better to inform strategies which aim to instigate the 24-hour city concept. The study reveals substantial obstacles to the realisation of a vibrant 24-hour city, the scale of which suggests the need for considerable and concerted planning and development efforts if they are to be overcome. Many opportunities exist but the impediments suggest that progress in the direction of a 'liveable' 24-hour city is likely, at best, to be slow and incremental in the British situation.

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Section: The Swansea and Cardiff Researchmentioning

confidence: 81%

City-centre Revitalisation: Problems of Fragmentation and Fear in the Evening and Night-time City

2000

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“…Indeed, several recent studies of individual American cities, where the traditional commercial structure has been most denuded by the process of retail decentralization (Lord 1988), reveal that the intra-urban hierarchy is alive and, if not exactly well, certainly in better shape than the critics of the central place model might lead one to expect (West, von Hohenbalken and Kroner 1985;Morrill 1987;Lord and Guy 1991).…”

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Retail location theory: evolution and evaluation

Brown¹

1993

The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer R

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“…The first volume of IRRDCR included a contribution by the present author and Professor Dennis Lord of the University of North Carolina, comparing the retail structures of Cardiff (UK) and Charlotte (USA) (Lord and Guy, 1991). We found major contrasts in the retail landscape of these two cities, particularly in the success (Cardiff) and failure (Charlotte) of attempts by the respective city councils to improve their central area retail facilities.…”

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“…Broadly speaking, the trends noted in Lord and Guy (1991) have been maintained in the last 20 years: the 'traditional centres' have stagnated, isolated shops have halved in number, whilst out-of-centre growth has continued. The city centre has maintained its superior position in both the city and the region.…”

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Development pressure and retail planning: a study of 20-year change in Cardiff, UK

Guy¹

2010

The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer R

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This article describes and explains changes in the retail landscape of a major British city over the last 20 years. It thus serves to continue the survey of change initiated in 1989 with a comparative analysis of the retail structures of Cardiff (UK) and Charlotte (USA). The changes reviewed in the present study are shown to exemplify broad trends in UK retailing, as well as the growing influences of town planning and urban regeneration policies.

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Comparative retail structure of British and American cities: Cardiff(UK) and Charlotte (USA)

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

City-centre Revitalisation: Problems of Fragmentation and Fear in the Evening and Night-time City

City-centre Revitalisation: Problems of Fragmentation and Fear in the Evening and Night-time City

Retail location theory: evolution and evaluation

Development pressure and retail planning: a study of 20-year change in Cardiff, UK

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