Seasonality, Rhythms and Post-Postmodern Everyday Urban Landscapes

Rhythm of urban retail landscapes: Shopping hours and the urban chronotopes

“…It is linked to the start of the new seasonal offers Fig. 8: Time-space description of Brno in 2013 as defined by the four chronotopes Source: authors' analysis of the retail chains (Jauhiainen and Mönkkönen, 2005;Jauhiainen, 2007). The concept of the city as a cyclical process repeated in daily rhythms is emphasised here.…”

“…In this sense, we argue that open shops occupying specific urban places and times are very significant institutional agents defining and delimiting particular stages within the course of the day in the city. The message of the article thus consists in the description the distinct time-space retail configurations (chronotopes), which play a crucial role in the social negotiation and imagination of basic temporal categories, such as early morning, late morning, lunch time, afternoon and evening, as being taken-for-granted in the urban context (Jauhiainen and Mönkkönen, 2005;Jauhiainen, 2007). At the theoretical level, the paper aims to find and differentiate the ways of describing the time-space of the city or, more specifically, to diversify the spatiotemporal description of the city.…”