When we visit city streets, shops or malls during the holiday season, is it spending money that we like? Or is it about experiencing our surroundings?
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Quiet hour is a strategy aimed at making retail spaces more inclusive for people who struggle with sensory overload, but they’re not the only ones who welcome a pause in the assault on their senses.
If you’re stuck in mall traffic this holiday season, spare a thought for Victor Gruen, whose grand urban vision turned into today’s suburban reality.
Many argue that the end of the pandemic is an opportunity to move towards a circular economy in clothing.
The COVID-19 crisis is stretching long strained relations between shopping centre landlords and tenants to breaking point.
Buy, buy, buy was a social directive after WWII.
Skiing in a mall is bizarre enough. But a mall dubbed the ‘American Dream’ – when malls are vanishing, along with the postwar vision of the American Dream – is its own brand of eerie dissonance.
A retail expert explains why brick-and-mortar brands will continue to thrive in the age of e-commerce.
Marketers once liked to think they could virtually steer people through shops and malls. But it appears shoppers’ movements, possibly driven by primal instincts, aren’t so easily directed.
Across the US and the UK, major brick and mortar retailers are battling the effects of e-commerce – and town centres could be the next casualties.
To survive the crisis, fashion companies are relying on new technologies. New players, new customer experience, big data – the whole sector is changing.
Urban retail space is being transformed yet again. Predictions of the demise of physical retailing in the face of online competition overlook its resilience over two centuries of disruptive innovations.
Rather than simply trying to trick people, the masters of marketing know it’s much easier to understand and work with innate human flaws.
Disney recently announced a forthcoming streaming service, leading some to wonder if the company is gearing up for a battle with Netflix. But not all streaming services are locked in a death match.
The mall’s inventor, Victor Gruen, envisioned thriving hubs of civic activity, rather than bland, asphalt-enclosed shopping centers. Is his original vision now being realized – or further corrupted?
Redesigning spaces of conflict starts with creating life on the edges. Geelong offers contrasting examples of city centre spaces: one with problems inherent in its design and a nearby one that works.
Unlike vision or touch, sound is much more difficult to control or avoid; music in particular spills across thresholds and intrudes into situations where it is unwelcome.
A mix of economic unease and fears of the growth of online shopping is pushing retailers to offer ever-steeper discounts, but there’s a better strategy to make it through the holidays in the black.
Governments need to build trust, especially during a time of heightened tensions around the threat of international terror attacks.
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Associate Professor in Social Sciences, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Justice and Society, UniSA, University of South Australia
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Director, Master of Business Administration (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Professor of Health Marketing, Deputy Director Centre for Social Impact (CSI), Flinders University, University of South Australia
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Visiting Research Academic, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emeritus of Journalism and American Studies, Rutgers University - Newark
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PhD Candidate and Sessional Tutor, The University of Melbourne
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Academic Head of Enterprise Management Track and Senior Lecturer of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Reader in Fashion, Marketing and Sustainability, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Associate Professor of Urban Design, University of Pennsylvania
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Lecturer, Retail History, Macquarie University
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Professor, Lectra Fashion and Technology Chair, ESCP Business School
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Affiliate professor at ESCP Europe and Professor, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
