From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America

Cohen, Lizabeth

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“…Because malls are commonly located in suburbs, low-income urban minority residents without cars have difficulty accessing them. Malls rely primarily on white, middle-class customers (Cohen 1996;Lofland 1998;Staeheli and Mitchell 2006). However, mall developers in developing world cities have fewer opportunities to isolate shopping centers from the poor than do their U.S. counterparts.…”

Section: Malls As Instruments Of Social Segregationmentioning

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Transposing the Urban to the Mall

Stillerman

Salcedo

2012

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Scholars understand shopping malls as central commercial and social settings. Some argue that malls' designs attract and seduce consumers, while others contend that mall authorities exclude vulnerable groups and prohibit free expression. Ethnographic studies, by contrast, document how consumers interpret and shape malls as social settings. Drawing on qualitative research in two Santiago, Chile, malls, we contend that Santiago's patterns of socioeconomic segregation and ample public transport facilitate cross-class interactions in malls. These characteristics encourage visitors to transpose practices and meanings from other public settings to the mall, drawing on rules for public interaction. Residents adapt mall infrastructures for noncommercial uses and engage in informal and formal resistance, reflecting conflicts between abstract and social space. The analysis shows that distinctive urbanization patterns significantly shape how consumers access and use malls as social spaces.

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Section: Malls As Instruments Of Social Segregationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transposing the Urban to the Mall

Stillerman

Salcedo

2012

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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“…This includes American residential segregation patterns, ethnic enclaves, colonial residence patterns, fortress cities, and slums (Massey and Denton 1993;Drakakis-Smith 2000). Such borders also serve to concentrate and spatially isolate the wealthy, for example, in gated communities, fortified enclaves, and suburban shopping malls (Grant and Mittelsteadt 2004;Blakely and Synder 1999;Caldeira 1996;Cohen 1996). These spatial arrangements are also often intertwined with symbolic IDs-as well as visitors and shoppers-who are not required to have IDs-must walk through to enter or leave the area.…”

Section: Geographic and Symbolic Bordersmentioning

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Global borderlands: a case study of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines

Reyes

2015

Theor Soc

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Abstract:By developing the concept of "global borderlands"-semi-autonomous, foreigncontrolled geographic locations geared toward international exchange-this article shifts the focus of globalization literature from elite global cities and cities on national borders to within-country sites owned and/or operated by foreigners and defined by significant social, cultural, and economic exchange. I analyze three shared features of these sites: semi-autonomy, symbolic and geographic boundaries, and unequal relations. The multimethod analyses reveal how the concept of global borderlands can help us better understand the interactions that occur in the contemporary era of globalization across people of different nationalities, classes, and races/ethnicities as well as the complex dynamics that occur within foreign-controlled spaces. I first situate global borderlands within the literatures of global cities and traditional borderlands. Next, I use the case study of Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ), Philippines to show (1) how the semiautonomy of global borderlands produces different regulations depending on nationality, (2) how its geographic and symbolic borders differentiate this space from the surrounding community, and (3) how the semi-autonomy of these locations and their geographic and symbolic borders reproduce unequal relations. As home of the former U.S. Subic Bay Naval Base and current site of a Freeport Zone, the SBFZ serves as a particularly strategic research location to examine the different forms of interactions that occur between groups within spaces of unequal power. (Frank 1973;Prebisch 1959;Singer 1949; Chase-Dunn and Grimes 1995; Wallerstein 2004). By definition, these approaches ignore sites of significant international or intercultural exchange and interaction that occur outside these elite spaces.In contrast, scholarship on frontiers, borders, and borderlands recognizes how inequalities are reproduced in places that cross international or intercultural boundaries (Alvarez 1995; Donnan and Wilson 1999). However, we know surprisingly little about how inequalities are maintained and reproduced in spaces that are based on cultural, social, and economic interactions beyond these particular locales and those that occur within foreign-controlled spaces. Examining unequal interactions-namely, those among foreign visitors, local visitors, and local workers in institutionalized, semi-autonomous 1 I am aware of the disputes regarding whether it is within-or between-country inequality that is rising. I use "societies" here to demonstrate that there is an increasing divide between the rich and poor, whether the unit of analysis is within-or between-countries. Global borderlands 5 Global borderlands: A definitionGlobal borderlands are semi-autonomous, foreign-controlled geographic locations geared toward international exchange. By "international exchange" I mean the combination of social, cultural, and economic exchanges and interactions, since each cannot be divorced from the others. Economic exchanges are roo...

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“…Frequently multiple centres developed in close proximity. Cohen (1996) notes that over a period of six months in 1957, Paramus, New Jersey was host to the opening of both R H Macy's Garden State Plaza and Allied Stores' Bergen Mall, located three quarters of a mile from each other.…”

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Organisational rigidities and marketing theory: examining the US department store c.1910–1965

Wood

2011

The Service Industries Journal

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By analysing the US department store between c. , this article deepens our understanding of the nature of the transition to phases of 'maturity' and 'decline' that are fundamental to models of retail change (retail wheel, retail life-cycle). By employing a close reading of key marketing and management writing of the period, it finds that "lockin" to an organisational structure associated with a single downtown store posed significant obstacles to suburban branched expansion. Only partial organisational centralisation occurred with the formation of holding companies in the 1920s, which contrasted with chains of general-merchandise and some department store retailers that were efficiently structured and better able to exploit suburban growth. When major department store companies finally embraced branched expansion they were forced to significantly revise their operational structures.

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From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America

Cited by 120 publications

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Transposing the Urban to the Mall

Transposing the Urban to the Mall

Global borderlands: a case study of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines

Organisational rigidities and marketing theory: examining the US department store c.1910–1965

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