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Retailising space, architecture, retail and the territorialisation of public space, by Mattias Karrholm

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-156) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Retailising space

electronic resource

bibliography

by Mattias Karrholm

Ashgate studies in architecture

architecture, retail and the territorialisation of public space

Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new kinds of retail space cropping up just about everywhere in the urban landscape. This book describes how the retailization of public domains affects our everyday life and our use of the built environment., Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new kinds of retail space. Retail space has cropped up just about everywhere in the urban landscape: in libraries, workplaces, churches and museums. In short, retail is becoming a more and more manifest part of the public domain. The traditional spaces of retail, such as city centres and outlying shopping malls, are either increasing in size or disappearing, producing new urban types and whole environments totally dedicated to retail. The creation of these new retail spaces has brought about a re- and de-territorialisation of urban public space, and has also led to transformations in urban design and type of materials used, and even in the logic and ways through which these design amenities meet the needs of retailers and/or consumers. This book describes how the retailisation of public domains affects our everyday life and our use of the built environment. Taking an architectural and territorial perspective on this issue, it looks specifically at how retail and consumption spaces have changed and territorialised urban life in different ways. It then develops a methodology and a set of concepts to describe and understand the role of architecture in these territorial transformations