Consumer behaviour ; Consumption ; Perception of the urban environment ; Retail trade ; Semiotics of space ; Shopping centre ; Social space ; Spatial system ; United States ; Urban area ; Urban landscape
Shopping is the most important contemporary social activity. Developers and designers of the retail built environment exploit the power of place and an intuitive understanding of the structuration of space to facilitate consumption. They manipulate
shoppers' behavior through the configuration of space, and design a symbolic landscape. These strategies are examined to obtain an understanding of how the retail built environment works.
Pleasure and danger: the paradoxical spaces of sexual citizenship
Spaces of citizenship
The spaces of citizenship are considered in relation to sexuality. Various articulations of sexual citizenship, through consumption and activism, are considered in relation to critiques of citizenship theory. Between public and private, between sin
This article explores the role that alcohol plays in recalibrating industrial landscapes into spaces of consumption, and the potential for craft breweries to alter the meanings of industrial heritage properties in Toronto’s Distillery District
and Ottawa’s LeBreton Flats. It argues that craft beer works as a vehicle in the manufacture of new spaces of cultural consumption. Specifically, craft beer production and consumption are used to aestheticize the industrial past and pacify resistance to central
This study tries to evaluate the land-consumption in Amiens, a middle-sized agglomeration (151000 inhabitants in 1975) since twenty years. In the agglomeration, consumption is essentially produced by commerce and industry (33ha annualy
), but different patterns of residential development absorb still more (50ha annualy). Outside, it is nearly only the diffusion of rurban residences which is in question, nevertheless, this one is still limited enough, but threatens the rural space. Deterioration
of conjoncture, political changes, new wishes can deeply modify the land-consumption forecast.
The homonormalisation of white heterosexual leisure spaces in Bloemfontein, South Africa
It is suggested that homonormalised spaces are far more than heteronormativity infiltrating the gay (leisure) world through a range of consumption-led processes/events, or gay male capitulation to such normative hegemonies. It is argued
Activity space ; Behaviour ; Consumption ; England ; Retail trade ; Shopping behaviour ; United Kingdom ; Urban practice
The AA. address questions of shopping as practised and its relation to shopping space. They argue that modes of shopping, which comprise distinctive sets of shopping practices involving relations to goods, relations of looking, the place of shopping
in the rythms of everyday life, and the socialities of sopping, are used to invest meaning in particular types of shopping space and to produce personalised shopping geographies. These arguments are developed in relation to charity shops and charity shopping.
Consuming the city : public fashion festivals and the participatory economies of urban spaces in Melbourne, Australia
Australia ; Commodity ; Cultural economy ; Cultural studies ; Festival ; Melbourne ; Production of space ; Public space ; Urban area ; Victoria
retailers and to reinscribe urban spaces as spaces of consumption.
that they reinforce dominant representations of the city and extend retailers’ reach into public space, but at the same time undermine spaces of business activity. It concludes that cultural mobilisation works to support the value-capturing strategies of local
Space, social reproduction and food security in Cairo/Egypt
Cairo ; Egypt ; Food ; Food security ; Household consumption ; Social organization ; Social reproduction ; Urban area ; Urban life ; Urban supply
The construction of urban space over the last 150 years is discussed, and attention is further given to more recent urban planning objectives. The paper takes up issues of space and social reproduction and traces them down to the microlevel od
Carbon offset ; Daily life ; Education ; Human geography ; Living conditions ; Living standard ; Moral geography ; Space ; Way of life
The four articles deal with geography and morality, good spaces and bad spaces, the relation of morality and space in geography ; the theoretical advisements and the empirical results to morality in weekday life at the eastern external frontier
of European Union ; the moral consumption and the paradigm of present with case study of voluntary carbon offsetting. - (IfL)
Spaces of every-night life : for geographies of sleep, sleeping and sleepiness
The paper provides a preliminary indication of fruitful directions for geographical research on sleep, reviewing salient work in geography and in cognate disciplines to develop a case for research in four domains : sleep and consumption, sleep