Abstract
Contemporary urbanization process threatens our environment, challenges the livability of cities, their ability to build localized competitive advantages, to attract investment, to create jobs and ensure the well-being of people in a sustainable development path [...]
Highlights
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In recent years, several experiences from both communities and public policy on governance, mobility or in the supply system of goods and services can be seen as signs of change in how we are dealing with urban problems
The need for sustainable transformation of cities is reinforced by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [1], Sustainable Development Goal 11, which is dedicated to making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Summary
The spread of concepts such as resilience and sustainability, with a danger of losing meaning and operationality, requires a discussion on their interest for urban retail and consumer services systems and proposals for possible indicators to assess their evolution [5]. The concept of sustainability has grown beyond the natural environment to include social as well as economic goals The acknowledgement of these three dimensions of sustainability, the focus on equity, the promotion of walkability, the role of proximity to stores to the comfort of people, to strengthen the sense of community and cohesion, are topics mostly referred to in the articles. From the urban retail perspective, the resilience idea works better when focused in retail areas It is quite interconnected with sustainability and conceptually close to the adaptive resilience, the ability of a system to anticipate or recognize shocks and to adapt or reorganize in the face of them without failing to perform its functions of assuring the satisfaction of consumer needs in a sustainable way [8,9]
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