Retail and Urban Space

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Retail and Urban Space
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Outline

• Retailing in Urban Areas
• Types
• Changing Structure
• Decentralization
• New Technologies and Retailing

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Retailing In Urban Areas

• UK
• 350,000 retail outlets, plus 200,000 other
  related services
• 800 million ft2 in Britain
• 2 million workers, 25 of GDP
• USA
• 20 of employment
• 1.5 trillion in sales
• 1.5 million establishments

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Types of retail areas

• Nucleated centers (e.g. CBD)
• Ribbon development (transportation corridors)
• Specialized function areas

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Changing Structure

• Influenced by market forces and planning
• Demand side changes
• Residential location
• Consumer attitudes and expectations
• Female employment
• Purchasing power
• Increased mobility

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Changing Structure

• Supply side changes
• Concentration
• New Technology
• Growth in Suburban Shopping Centers
• 1950sconsequent development
• 1960ssimultaneous development
• 1970scatalytic development
• 1980sentertainment development
• www.mallofamerica.com

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Decentralization and CBDs

• Decline of CBD
• Countervailing tendencies
• Office concentration
• Entertainment districts
• Conventions
• Gentrification, etc.
• More specialized, tourist shops

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UK Trends

• Less suburban development
• Increasing now, due to development pressures and
  urban congestion

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New Technologies and Retailing

• Tele-shopping?
• Managing flow of goods

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1998 and Projected 2003 On-line Retail Sales
(billion)
Source Forrester Research, cited by FINOVA
Quarterly, U. of Arizona http//www.bpa.arizona.e
du/midsizebusiness/quarterly3-2/salesgraph.html
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2003 Projected On-line Sales, Selected Categories
(Billion)
Source Forrester Research, cited by FINOVA
Quarterly, U. of Arizona http//www.bpa.arizona.e
du/midsizebusiness/quarterly3-2/salesgraph.html
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Take-home messages

• Retail activity is important component of urban
  land-use
• Shifts over time have led to retail
  suburbanization, but also retail underpinning
  inner city revitalization efforts
• Links between retail and entertainment/tourism is
  not critically important
• As a result, despite new remote shopping
  technologies, importance of retail activity not
  likely to decrease