Town centre management models: A European perspective

Coca‐Stefaniak, J. Andrés; Parker, Cathy; Quin, Simon; Rinaldi, Roberto; Byrom, John

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2008.12.001

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“…Some practical responses are trade associations (Todeva and Knoke 2005), TCM organisations (e.g. Aparicio de Castro and Zorilla Calvo 2012; Coca-Stefaniak et al 2009;Riviezzo, de Nisco, and Napolitano 2009;Peel 2003), business improvement districts (BIDs) (e.g. Brunetta and Caldarice 2014;Peel, Lloyd, and Lord 2009;Blackwell 2008), and/or place management and place marketing (e.g.…”

Section: The Practical Response In Town Centresmentioning

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Strategic alliances in a town centre: stakeholders' perceived importance of the property owners

Håkansson

Lagin

2014

The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer R

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In order for town centres to manage increased competition in retailing, cooperation between stakeholders in a strategic alliance has become more important. Typical stakeholders in such a strategic alliance are retailers, local authorities, and property owners. The importance of retailers and local authorities is well researched. However, the property owners' importance is not. The aim of this article is to uncover the perceived importance of property owners in a strategic alliance. This is a case study of a medium-sized town in which semi-structured interviews with different stakeholders were conducted. In the chosen town there is a town centre management alliance at work. The case studied shows a fragmented property owner market with no dominant property owner. Our study shows that the perception of the role of the property owner is crucial for town centre development. However, many property owners do not recognise their own significance for the town centre development. The main reasons for this opinion are that they do not consider themselves to have enough resources or the capability to influence the town development.

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Section: The Practical Response In Town Centresmentioning

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Strategic alliances in a town centre: stakeholders' perceived importance of the property owners

Håkansson

Lagin

2014

The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer R

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“…Así, la evaluación de las necesidades de los ciudadanos respecto de la habitabilidad del espacio público se plantea como una prioridad para gestores y administradores urbanos (Insch & Florek, 2008). Consecuentemente, durante las últimas dos décadas, la planificación y el pensamiento estratégico han emergido como una herramienta central en la gestión urbana (Coca-Stefaniak, Parker, Quin, Rinaldi & Byrom, 2009).…”

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La evaluación del espacio público de ciudades intermedias de Chile desde la perspectiva de sus habitantes: implicaciones para la intervención urbana

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Palomo‐Vélez

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A diferencia de las evaluaciones del espacio público urbano realizadas de ‘arriba hacia abajo’, ‘objetivistas’ o desde los ‘expertos’, se busca aquí identificar las evaluaciones de los habitantes mismos de la ciudad. Se mide y reporta la importancia y la satisfacción que experimentan 138 habitantes de la ciudad de Talca (202 000 mil habitantes, Chile) quienes respondieron un cuestionario de47 ítems referidos a la importancia y satisfacción en relación con diferentes aspectos del espacio público de la ciudad. Un análisis de escalamiento multidimensional muestra que las personas evaluaron las condiciones de salud, los conciertos de música, el entorno, los espacios deportivos y la movilidad como los aspectos más importantes de la calidad de la vida urbana, mientras que informaron estar insatisfechos con diversos aspectos del espacio público, en particular, con elruido y el comercio en las calles. Todas las dimensiones específicas de la satisfacción correlacionan positivamente con la satisfacción global con la calidad del espacio público. Los resultados se discuten sobre la necesidad de generar mecanismos de participación y evaluación de la Calidad de Vida Urbana y su incorporación a la planificación y gestión urbanas.

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“…In so doing it discusses the Centri Commerciali Naturali, introduced by law in Italy (Campania Regional Law 1/09) and established in several urban areas nationwide through an agreement between municipalities and retail owners. This approach, which can be considered the Italian way to the Town Centre Management schemes [19], has been developed in order to deal with the progressive abandonment of former catalyst retail areas in the consolidated city by introducing a new form of public-private partnership able to support regeneration processes centred on the preservation of a vibrant mixitè of activities and uses [20]. The paper suggests that the socio-economic capital activation can contribute to undertake successful regeneration processes based on a participative approach and on public and private integrated tools.…”

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Natural Commercial Centers: Regeneration Opportunities and Urban Challenges

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Ragozino

2014

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Abstract. In the history of European cities, public spaces always played a pivotal role, representing key places for developing social interactions and for enhancing the sense of community. Squares, commercial streets, market places as well as traditional retail and art-and-crafts areas can be considered the core of the city. The social, economic and demographic crisis and the loss of cultural identity has affected the capacity of attraction of local small retailers, giving the floor to aggressive strategies such as suburban shopping malls, centres, arcades or precinct, forming a complex of shops, movie theatres, restaurants and food courts with interconnecting walkways [1]. Typical expressions of a globalized economy, the different categories of suburban shopping mall have transformed behaviours and paths at a large scale [2]. One of the consequences can be identified in the loss of traditional commercial activities within the city centre, producing a situation of urban decline, mirrored by the impoverishment of public spaces [3,4,5,6,7]. This paper suggests that, by activating the existing cultural and socio-economic capital, it is possible to undertake a successful regeneration process based on a participative approach and on public and private integrated tools. By focussing on the experience of the Centri Commerciali Naturali (natural malls) -established in Italy as partnership between Municipalities, cultural operators, public services providers and associations of shops owners to exploit the commercial activities in the historical centres -the ongoing research is oriented to explore successful experiences of private-public partnership to be implemented in a regeneration process of areas traditionally dedicated to retail and art-and-craft small enterprises. The paper discusses the potentiality and the criticism of the Centri Commerciali Naturali as engine for the redevelopment and regeneration of the inner city abandoned retail areas. In so doing, the experience developed in Campania (Southern Italy) will be analysed in order to show how the activation of the social capital within the framework of the Centri Commerciali Naturali could contribute in renovating the traditional commercial identity of the area, supporting the public spaces regeneration process. This paper aspires to offer useful insights to all those policy makers, city managers and planners who seek to revitalise traditional market areas in European city centres. Issues and criticism embedded in the loss of traditional retail areas in the city centresIn the European city, retail activities in public space have been the engine of local identity for centuries. Still in recent time, Jane Jacobs [8] highlighted the role of traditional retails in maintaining the identity of a neighbourhood, while the urban sociologist Oldenburg [9] explained the importance of "good places" in allowing socialisation within the city. Nowadays, many urban design codes explicitly require city centre blocks to provide active ground floor edges to the street, also for sa...

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Town centre management models: A European perspective

Cited by 75 publications

References 33 publications

Strategic alliances in a town centre: stakeholders' perceived importance of the property owners

Strategic alliances in a town centre: stakeholders' perceived importance of the property owners

La evaluación del espacio público de ciudades intermedias de Chile desde la perspectiva de sus habitantes: implicaciones para la intervención urbana

Natural Commercial Centers: Regeneration Opportunities and Urban Challenges

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