Escalating Consumption and Spatial Planning: Notes on the Swedish Retail Evolution
Författare
Summary, in English
The aim of this article is to describe and investigate how the Swedish escalation in consumption and restructuring of retail spaces are dealt with in Swedish spatial planning. The first part contains a history and overview of the Swedish retail evolution. The major changes are presented, followed by a short discussion of some main actors in this evolution. In the second part we focus on policies and the planning process, discussing how the municipalities are expected to fulfil their tasks as the agents responsible for physical planning of commercial centres in the light of the ongoing rapid escalation of retail planning projects. Recent guidelines from the national and regional authorities for improvement of the current situation are analysed. Finally, we discuss recent research maintaining that a new form for project planning is emerging within commercial planning. This new form sometimes bypasses traditional planning practices and thus requires new instruments and organisations for a more effective planning of urban retail.
Publiceringsår
2011
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1043-1060
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
European Planning Studies
Volym
19
Issue
6
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Architecture
- Human Geography
Nyckelord
- planning
- retail
- consumption
Status
Published
Projekt
- Replacis, Retail planning for Cities Sustainability
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1469-5944