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City, Retail and Consumption
No full textCity, Retail and Consumption focuses on changing urban spaces through the interpretative key offered by retail and consumption, between globalization processes and the embeddedness in local contexts. The book is the outcome of the fourth international seminar organized by geographers from various countries (Brazil, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain) and enriched by the contributions of specialists (architects, urban planners, engineers, economists) and stakeholders. It collects almost fifty texts written after a fruitful debate not only about theories, approaches and methods but also about the practical implications of the urban planning for shopping and consumption places. The case studies range from Sao Paulo to Presidente Prudente, from Buenos Aires to Mexico City and again from Barcelona and Lleida to Lisbon, Paris, Ankara, Copenhagen and many Italian cities. Through different scales of analysis, the contributors have indeed paid their attention on relevant issues to urban studies: resilience, sustainability, dialectic between public and private spaces, impact of e-commerce in urban areas, residential and retail gentrification, neoliberalism and the right to the city
4.4 L’imprenditorialità dei migranti; 4.5 Il commercio ambulante e il terziario precario (capitolo IV: Gli immigrati in Campania)
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Consumando spazi centrali e notti urbane: micro-geografie dei giovani a Barcellona e a Napoli
No full textSviluppando precedenti ricerche condotte sulle geografie del commercio e del consumo dei giovani a Barcellona e a Napoli, l'articolo si focalizza sull'importanza assunta, nella produzione del centro-città, dal consumo di prodotti, spazi e tempi (della notte e del fine-settimana) da parte delle giovani generazioni. Un approfondimento specifico è dedicato al ruolo di tali attori urbani nel creare, cambiare, negoziare e contestare, spesso in conflitto con altri attori, i paesaggi notturni del commercio e del consumo. La trasformazione dei due quartieri del Raval (Barcellona) e di Chiaia (Napoli) in distretti del consumo e dell’intrattenimento notturno costituisce il punto di partenza per una riflessione sulla vita notturna come campo di studio nella geografia urbana e terreno di intervento ormai imprescindibile per le politiche urbane.Developing previous research carried out on retail and consumption geographies of young people in Barcelona and Naples, we will focus on the importance assumed, in the production of the city center, by youth consumption of products, spaces and times (of night and weekend). An in-depht analysis will focus on the role of these urban actors in creating, changing, negotiating and contesting, often in conflict with other actors, the nightscapes of retail and consumption. The transformation of the two neighbourhoods of Raval (Barcelona) and Chiaia (Naples) into districts of consumption and night-time entertainment will be the starting point for a reflection on night-life as field of study in urban geography and by now as an essential area of intervention for urban policies
Le città mediterranee tra autenticità e ibridazioni
No full textThe paper aims at analysing the link between urban regeneration, consumption and tourism at the Mediterranean scale. Focusing in particular on the cities of Southern Europe and examining a range of narratives on their post-industrial transition, the paper considers two phenomena in order to interpret the most recent changes: the brandification and eventification of their Mediterranean cityscapes
Retail Changes and Consumption Practices in the Neighbourhood of Vomero, Naples
No full textTh e article focuses on the Neapolitan neighbourhood of Vomero, whose most recent transformations can be eff ectively read through the lenses of retail and consumption geography. In greater detail, the evolution of the neighbourhood will be briefl y outlined through a long-lasting look on its retail change, from its urbanization to the current confi guration of a fabric modifi ed by new consumption practices, in turn generated by the diff erent demands of (old and new) inhabitants and users. The fi eldwork research, which took place on a selected core-area and was articulated into various moments – site visits, with the emotions and perceptions they aroused; mapping, to reconstruct the spatial organisation of retail and entertainment activities; indepth interviews with privileged witnesses; analysis of local commercial policies – will allow to exemplify how the neighbourhood escapes the simplicity of some urban thesis on local-global dialectic. Even in a micro-space which has been the symbol of innovation and separation from the rest of Naples, the commercial core is disputed among various actors. At the scale of the polarizing nodes of the neighbourhood, the retail
changes and the consumption practices – although not induced by top-down project or branding policies – highlight new tensions between forms of innovation and of embeddedness
Beni confiscati e inclusione sociale. Gli strumenti territoriali tra comunicazione non verbale e contesti motorio-sportivi
Full text linkAbstract "Il ruolo delle città dell’Europa del sud nel Mediterraneo conteso: paesaggi urbani in trasformazione, immagini e narrative"
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