Retailising Space: Architecture, Retail and the Territorialisation of Public Space

Retailising Space: Architecture, Retail and the Territorialisation of Public Space

By Mattias Karrholm

Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new kinds of retail space, such as in libraries, workplaces, churches and museums. 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 at how retail and consumption spaces have changed and territorialised urban life in different ways.

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Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 09/09/2016
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781138246911
ISBN-10: 1138246913
Language: English

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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.

About the Author

Mattias Kärrholm, Associate professor at Urban Studies, Malmö University, Sweden and at the Department of Architecture & Built Environment, LTH, Lund University. Sweden.

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