Abstract
International organizations, public authorities and researchers have increasingly been concerned with urban resilience and sustainability. We focus on the triangle retail, urban resilience and city sustainability, aiming to uncover how cities have coped with retail challenges to increase their resilience towards a sustainable path, highlighting the role played by public policy. The case study asks, is Central Lisbon strongly affected by processes of regeneration, touristification and gentrification, simultaneously with changes in retail. The analysis of planning and other policy documents complemented by fieldwork evidence shows a close link between public initiatives and private entrepreneurship and their impacts in the vitality of the core. The text shows that the policy outlined by local authorities to overcome the decline of the city center and to meet the aims of sustainability implies urban resilience. The transformation of retail is aligned with that vision and is supported its achievement, while the commercial fabric suffered an evolution from shopping to consumption spaces, polarized by culture and entertainment, targeting new consumers and lifestyles. However, new social and economic challenges arise due to escalating housing prices, change in retail supply, the excessive dependence of tourism and the danger of losing part of the city’s identity.
Highlights
Commerce is in the very nature of the urban
Pu and Qiu [17] analyse 1296 articles on urban resilience, published between 1986 and 2015, and found two main clusters: the larger has its focus on ecology or socioecology perspectives; the other is related with psychology
The mentioned literature reviews show that publications on urban sustainability grew progressively until they reached a peak near the beginning of the new millennium, while those related to resilience began to grow more sharply since 2003 and exceeded in number those of sustainability in 2006
Summary
Commerce is in the very nature of the urban. Besides other functions, retail gives character to townscapes and participates in the image locals and foreigners have of the places. Within research projects on the economy or retail restructuring from 1992 onwards, many times the Lisbon city center has been used as a case study, in parallel with other neighborhoods, surveys and exploratory interviews with retailers and consumers conducted under the supervision of the authors. After shedding light on the concerns with the resilience of urban retail fostered by public policies, both in general and in Portugal, on part three, in the fourth section we proceed with the analysis of the retail evolution in the Lisbon city center in the last decade.
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
