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Shopping and Urbanity: Emerging Assemblages of Main Street, Mall, and Power Centre

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  • Fujie Rao
  • Kim Dovey

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Car-dependent cities of the mid-late twentieth century transformed urban shopping as shopping centres became privatised and separated from urban life – traditional main streets were often replaced by suburban malls and then power centres (big-box clusters). We identify 13 emerging synergies between these retail types and critique the ways the synergies may foster or endanger urban public life. This evidence suggests contradictory trends: a return to urbanity with more fine-grained, mixed-use, and pedestrian-friendly shopping, juxtaposed with anti-urban tendencies of entrenched car-dependency and sophisticated private control. The role of planning in creating resilient urbanity is at stake.

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  • Fujie Rao & Kim Dovey, 2021. "Shopping and Urbanity: Emerging Assemblages of Main Street, Mall, and Power Centre," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(5), pages 747-764, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rptpxx:v:22:y:2021:i:5:p:747-764
    DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2021.1965647
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    1. Luis Alfonso Escudero Gómez, 2021. "The Reconfiguration of Urban Public–Private Spaces in the Mall: False Security, Antidemocratization, and Apoliticalization," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(22), pages 1-16, November.

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