Towards a Retailess City? A Comparative Analysis of the Retail Desertification between a Global and a Local Commercial Strips in Barcelona
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Framework: Urban Economy Circuits and Retail-Less Cities
2.1. Circuits of the Urban Economy
“actors occupy certain parts of the built environment. However, locations are not permanent and their duration depends on the equation between the cost of place in the urban fabric and the capacity to add value to products and services. Hence the migration of fewer capitalised firms and the incessant reorganisation of urban centralities in this extensive built environment”[41]
“the city is seen as a single system whose movement is given by communicating vessels that are the circuits; in such a way that it is only possible to recognise and understand one of the circuits concomitantly with the identification and understanding of the other. Far from being simply a duality, the superior circuit and lower circuit reveal its unitary existence and its dialectic opposition”[42]
2.2. Retail-Less Cities
3. Area of Study, Methodology and Sources of Information
3.1. Area of Study
3.2. Methodology
- (i)
- R > S/2
- (ii)
- T > C/4
4. Results: The Urban Economy Circuits in Passeig de Gràcia and in the Sants-Creu Coberta Street Strips
4.1. Passeig de Gràcia
4.2. Carrer de Sants-Creu Coberta Strips
5. Discussion
6. Final Evaluations
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | Upper Circuit | Lower Circuit |
---|---|---|
Capital-Work | Capital intensive | Work intensive |
Organisation | Complex and hierarchical | Simplified |
Technology | Innovative | Rudimentary |
Advertisements | Scientifically planned | Informal |
Discounts | Periodic sales | Result of negotiation |
Credit | Institutionalised | Informal |
Territorial logic | Vertical | Horizontal |
Property | SA or transnational | Unipersonal or family-owned |
Trend | Behaviour | Relation | Forms | ||
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Activity | Non-Activity | ||||
Continuity | Resilient | Retention | Dispersion | Concentration | Desertification |
Change | Predatory | Assimilation | Dispersion | Concentration | Desertification |
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Frago, L.; Morcuende, A.; Lloberas, D. Towards a Retailess City? A Comparative Analysis of the Retail Desertification between a Global and a Local Commercial Strips in Barcelona. Urban Sci. 2024, 8, 126. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci8030126
Frago L, Morcuende A, Lloberas D. Towards a Retailess City? A Comparative Analysis of the Retail Desertification between a Global and a Local Commercial Strips in Barcelona. Urban Science. 2024; 8(3):126. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci8030126
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrago, Lluis, Alejandro Morcuende, and David Lloberas. 2024. "Towards a Retailess City? A Comparative Analysis of the Retail Desertification between a Global and a Local Commercial Strips in Barcelona" Urban Science 8, no. 3: 126. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci8030126