Abstract
This paper proposes a new tool for assessing the impacts of shopping centres on the urban ecosystem. This decision-making tool is innovative because it is holistic: a holistic impact assessment (HIA). It can take into account all the impacts of shopping centres, viz. economic, social, environmental (natural and built environment) ones and their impact on urban governance. The assessment approaches adopted so far tend to focus on the socio-economic impact or on the transport infrastructure one, and to a lesser extent, the environmental impact. Yet, the whole urban ecosystem is affected at several spatial scales. The paper reports the use of the HIA tool applied to a case study, Bab Ezzouar regional shopping centre in Algiers, showing its operational ability when integrated in the urban and commercial sustainable planning process.
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