Mega-retail-led regeneration in the shrinking city: Panacea or placebo?

Slach, Ondřej; Nováček, Alexandr; Bosák, Vojtěch; Krtička, Luděk

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102799

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“…Further reinforced by the fact that mostly those over 45 years old engaged in shopping on main streets, one explanation could be that small businesses remain behind as they fail to update their response to market demands (corroborating Talen and Jeong [48]). This decline is potentially aggravated by the rivalry of the newly-built shopping-mall within a 300 m distance [46,62], and by the weak position of the historical center in this fragmented city [64]. Overall, the low pedestrian volumes and the low attractivity form a negative synergy with the sprawling and shrinking tendencies of the city, and the danger is that the city center will depopulate even more (the city center's population already decreased by 20% from 1991 to 2018 [61]).…”

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“…Over the last two centuries, Ostrava developed as a polycentric city with a fragmented urban structure. The city of Ostrava has witnessed persistent population loss since 1990 (a decrease of nearly 14%) and although deindustrialization is considered a main cause of the shrinkage, the city still retained its specialization in traditional industries [62]. Rather than unemployment, the air pollution resulting from industrial activity is currently one of the strong push-away factors which led to suburbanization and outward migration to the capital city (Prague) [62,63].…”

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“…As the remaining retail is primarily supported by those working in the city center, and not by the residents, the main streets of Ostrava appear to be empty, especially on weekends. From 2006 to 2016, mainly due to the opening of the adjacent Nová Karolina Shopping Centre (NKSC), the number of vacant units sharply increased, along with a 20% decrease of active retail units [62].…”

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How Attractive for Walking Are the Main Streets of a Shrinking City?

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This research assesses the way main streets are perceived and used by pedestrians in an industrial, Central-European city—Ostrava in Czechia. The city has recently experienced shrinkage and changing patterns of socio-economic exchange, reason why this research is timely and needed in view of city center regeneration. Four main streets have been purposefully selected for this study. The research methods include questionnaires with street users (n = 297), direct observations of human activities and pedestrian counting. A link between business types and the way the street is experienced emerged. Results also indicate that vacant and unproperly managed spaces negatively affect the desire to walk on main streets. Furthermore, pedestrian volumes coupled with the amount of static activities determined several benchmark conditions for lively street segments. This research provides recommendations for policy-making and design and planning practice for regeneration of industrial city centers undergoing commercial and spatial transformation.

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“…More recently, however, there has been a shift in understanding urban demographic decline as a relatively distinct process from the overall demographic decline and, as a process with causes that stretch beyond deindustrialization and second demographic transition. Such empirical studies have been conducted for various geographical settings: cities from various countries for the purpose of international comparisons [16,20,47], the whole spectrum of cities within a particular country [45,[48][49][50], and case studies of particular cities [51][52][53][54][55] or groups of cities within a specific country [28,[56][57][58][59].…”

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Patterns of Urban Shrinkage: A Systematic Analysis of Romanian Cities (1992–2020)

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EU post-socialist countries are nowadays the epicenter of urban shrinkage, despite economic growth trajectories reported during the last decades. However, systematic assessments of urban shrinkage patterns for this part of the continent are surprisingly insufficiently addressed in the literature, and the relationship between urban demographic decline/growth and economic decline/growth is still to be understood. This paper first delivers a state-of-the-art of the peculiarities of urban shrinkage in East-Central EU countries. Secondly, it employs an analysis grid to assess severity, prevalence, persistence, speed and regional incidence of urban decline in Romania—one of the most affected post-socialist countries within the European Union. Thirdly, it explores the statistical association between urban shrinkage severity and economic growth, on one hand, and between urban shrinkage severity and municipality revenues, on the other. Results show that urban shrinkage is currently increasing in prevalence and severity among Romanian cities, thus continuing an alarming trend that started in 1990. Secondly, the results pinpoint a statistically significant association between demographic shrinkage, local economic output and municipalities’ own-source revenues. However, the size effects are rather weak, suggesting a more nuanced relationship between economic and demographic urban growth than that predicted by some theories of urban change.

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“…The shopping center phenomenon currently belongs to one of the most significant manifestations of urban retail globalization not only in post-socialist Europe, but also in many other countries of the world. The point is not just in the specific appearance of shopping centers, but mainly in the economic, social, and cultural impact they have on the city and society [2]. One of the most fundamental impacts that the existence of shopping centers has is their influence over the change of long-term patterns of shopping behavior and shopping habits with most population groups [3][4][5][6][7].…”

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Transformation and Sustainable Development of Shopping Centers: Case of Czech and Slovak Cities

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The aim of the paper is to critically evaluate the similarities and differences in the development of the temporal and spatial structure of shopping centers in the Czech and Slovak republics. We focused on the retail transformation and sustainable manifestations of the location and construction of shopping centers. We classified shopping centers according to their genesis, location in the city, and size of the gross leasable area. To analyze migration trends and geographic distribution characteristics of shopping centers in the capital cities of both countries (local level of analysis), we used spatial gravity and standard deviational ellipse. Generally, there is an analogous trend in the development of shopping centers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with a particular two- to four-year lag in Slovakia (west–east gradient). Despite this, we still perceive the demand for shopping centers in both countries as above average, and it is not declining. The construction of shopping centers, mainly in small towns, also indicates this trend. In Prague and Bratislava, the pattern of spatial expansion of shopping centers differs. Prague probably represents a more advanced phase of shopping center agglomeration. However, neither country has reached the state of clustering.

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Mega-retail-led regeneration in the shrinking city: Panacea or placebo?

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References 57 publications

How Attractive for Walking Are the Main Streets of a Shrinking City?

How Attractive for Walking Are the Main Streets of a Shrinking City?

Patterns of Urban Shrinkage: A Systematic Analysis of Romanian Cities (1992–2020)

Transformation and Sustainable Development of Shopping Centers: Case of Czech and Slovak Cities

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