scholarly journals The Centre-Periphery Dialectics in Eastern Sicily Retail System. An Exploratory Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
Caterina Barilaro ◽  
Caterina Cirelli ◽  
Teresa Graziano ◽  
Leonardo Mercatanti
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Retail Geography ◽  
Retail Formats

This paper aims at scrutinizing from an historical perspective the deep transformations shaped by retail spaces and new consumption patterns challenging long-entrenched dichotomies, such as the centre-periphery one. In particular, the exploratory research explores the territorial reconfiguration of the main Eastern Sicily metropolitan areas, Catania and Messina, from the lens of the retail geography, namely after the diffusion of new suburban retail formats which have completely upset deeply-rooted relations between urban core and suburban rings. 

Retail Suburbanization, Modernization, and Growth in Sydney during Australia’s Postwar Boom

2021 ◽  
pp. 009614422110236
Author(s):  
Matthew Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Capital City ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
And Function ◽  
Retail Formats ◽  
Car Driving

This article uses Sydney as a case study to examine the process of retail decentralization during Australia’s postwar boom, showing how the form and function of capital city retailing changed completely in just a couple of decades. Suburban migration, the emergence of mobile car-driving consumers, socially constructed gender roles, the ongoing importance of public transport networks, planning regimes that sought to concentrate development in designated zones, and business growth strategies that deployed retail formats developed in America all played a role in shaping the form and function of Australian retailing during the postwar boom. In the process, the retail geographies of Australia’s capital cities were transformed from highly centralized distribution structures dominated by the urban core, to decentralized landscapes of retail clusters featuring modern retail forms like the supermarket and shopping center that would come to define Australian retailing for the remainder of the century.

A Historical Perspective of FDI Policy in India

LAW REVIEW ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jawed Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Growth Policy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Huge Challenge ◽  
Study Offer

FDI is an important tool in the economic development of the nation and considered as the spine of an economy, determining its growth trajectory in a big way but India followed a very restrictive FDI in retail policy from 1991 to 2006. India opened the entryway to single brand retailers permitting outside retailers to have up to 51% ownership and six years later i.e. in 2012. Government of India declared total liberalization of the FDI retail policy approach in single brand retailing by allowing 100% FDI in single brand retail. Although the ongoing wave of incessant liberalization and globalization FDI in such frame could be huge challenge and its growth policy itself speak the history of FDI policy. Historically, the current FDI policy growth is an enormous challenge, which is the reason of the present paper. The study offer an outline summary of historical perspective of FDI policy in India with the assistance of knowledge collected from secondary sources. The secondary data has been collected from journals, research paper, newspaper, literature review and websites. In order to make an exploratory research, chosen in order to develop a profound understanding of the research topic and procure knowledge through concerning research objectives from different angles to explain it.

The Female Business Customer: An Analysis of Provision And Consumption Patterns In The U.S. Lodging Industry

1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Crawford-Welch
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Lodging Industry ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Conceptual Scheme ◽  
Market Segment ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Business Market ◽  
Facility Type ◽  
The U.S

The business market accounts for over 50 percent of the customers of all U.S. lodging establishments. The term ‘business market’ is misleading in that it implies a degree of homogeneity when in reality the market is becoming increasingly heterogeneous in nature. This paper demonstrates the severe limitations of current strategies used in the lodging industry in its attempt to cater to the needs of the female business traveler and suggests a more appropriate framework from which to evolve strategies. There is a distinct lack of statistical data pertinent to the actual and potential size of the female business market. What little evidence there is suggests the market has grown dramatically. Current strategies used by lodging organizations to cater to the needs of this market fail in two fundamental aspects: in identifying the needs of this market segment and in attempting to provide for these needs. Organizations currently fall back on facility type strategies. The paper shows, through the adoption of an historical perspective, that such strategies only serve to reinforce social barriers to consumption. It is argued that until it is realized that the problem of female customers is a socio-cultural one, the demands of female customers will always be couched in terms of stereotypes despite the fact that these initiatives do not produce success. Lodging organizations have made the mistake of accommodating women within the confines of their prescribed gender roles. The paper demonstrates how the adoption of a cultural studies perspective can go some way to providing a basic theory of consumption that is able to relate the varied tastes and activities of the consumer into a single conceptual scheme.

Patterns of Food Consumption in Early Modern Iran

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolph Matthee
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Fruit And Vegetables ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Regional Variations ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S

This article examines patterns of food consumption in early modern Iran from a historical perspective and in a global context. The discussion focuses on the period of the Safavid and the Qajar dynasties, or the early sixteenth to early twentieth centuries. The article first considers Iran’s cultural linkage to the world between the seventh-century Arab invasion and the advent of modern communications in relatively recent times. It then looks at the origins and movement of food in Iran before analyzing the diet of Iranians, especially fresh fruit and vegetables. It also explores regional variations in food consumption patterns in Iran and concludes with an overview of the changes that have occurred in food consumption patterns in the country since the 1960s.

Are We Nodding for the Noodles? – An Empirical Evidence among the Bengaluru Youth

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
K B Rishikesh ◽  
Tomy K Kallarakal
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
General Public ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Purchase Decision ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Packaged Foods ◽  
Immense Potential

Noodles available in numerous brands and variants have become popular nowadays in the Indian markets. However, there were setbacks for this industry owing to the blacklist of a few brands by the state authorities and the consequent boycott of those brands by the general public. In this context, this study intends to investigate the factors which affect the purchase decision of consumers of Packaged Foods, especially the Ready-To-Cook noodles. The consumption patterns of the consumers in terms of taste, convenience and availability are also examined.  This exploratory research has been done among the Bengaluru youth in the age group of 20-30 years, and the influence of five major players in this segment - Maggi, Yippee, Ching’s, Top Ramen and Knorr are explored. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to understand the differences and variations among the brands. The paper concludes that Ready-To-Cook noodles has not yet got the acknowledgement and acceptance among the youth, though there is an immense potential for growth in this segment in the future. Critical factors that influence the buying decision of consumers are convenience, taste and availability. Consumers believe that noodles category should include more variety at reasonable and affordable prices, which will cater to the demand of this product in future. However, the brands in this study perform satisfactorily on the factors selected. And Maggi is perceived to be the best brand of noodle in terms of price, and Knorr in terms of its variety.

scholarly journals Increased Interregional Travel to Shopping Malls and Restaurants in Response to Differential COVID-19 Restrictions in the Greater Toronto Area

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul R. Soucy ◽  
Amir Ghasemi ◽  
Shelby L. Sturrock ◽  
Isha Berry ◽  
Sarah A. Buchan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Number Of Visits ◽  
The Government ◽  
Lower Transmission ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Peripheral Regions

Background: In the fall of 2020, the government of Ontario, Canada adopted a 5-tier, regional framework of public health measures for the COVID-19 pandemic. During the second wave of COVID-19 in Ontario, the urban core of the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto and Peel) were the first regions in the province to enter the highest restriction tier ("lockdown") on November 23, 2020, which closed restaurants to in-person dining and limited non-essential businesses, including shopping malls, to curbside pickup. The peripheral regions of the Greater Toronto Area (York, Durham, Halton) would not enter lockdown until later the following month. In this analysis, we examine whether the implementation of differentially timed restrictions in a highly interconnected metropolitan area led to increased interregional travel, potentially driving further transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Methods: We used anonymized smartphone data to estimate the number of visits by residents of regions in the urban core to shopping malls and restaurants in peripheral regions in the week before compared to the week after the November 23 lockdown. Results: Residents of Toronto and Peel took fewer trips to shopping malls and restaurants in the week following lockdown. This was entirely driven by reductions in visits within the locked down regions themselves, as there was a significant increase in trips to shopping malls in peripheral regions by these residents in the same period (Toronto: +40.7%, Peel: +65.5%). Visits to restaurants in peripheral regions also increased slightly (Toronto: +6.3%, Peel: +11.8%). Discussion: Heterogeneous restrictions may undermine lockdowns in the urban core as well as driving residents from zones of higher transmission to zones of lower transmission. These concerns are likely generalizable to other major metropolitan areas, which often comprise interconnected but administratively independent regions.

scholarly journals Poverty Suburbanization: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Analyses

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenya L. Covington
Keyword(s):  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Urban Political Economy ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Major Metropolitan Area ◽  
Growth And Change

Today almost every major metropolitan area in the U.S. has experienced rising poverty at a rate that surpasses its urban core (Kneebone & Berube, 2013, p. 2). Poverty suburbanization has accelerated about 3.3 percentage points over the last decade. In this article, factors associated with the growing share of poor in suburbs in the 100 largest metropolitan areas were examined. The analysis sought to address the overarching question: what metropolitan factors are associated with poverty suburbanization? Poverty suburbanization growth rates and temporal changes in metropolitan level factors for 2000 and 2008 are highlighted. Change regression results reveal important macro level and within suburb effects illuminating recent changes in the spatial distribution of the poor. Positive changes in housing affordability appear to open up access to suburban neighborhoods, while metropolitan job decentralization and residential segregation have countervailing effects on the suburbanization of the poor. Findings from this paper suggest that it is appropriate to place the suburbanization of poverty in the contemporary period within an urban political economy framework of urban growth and change.

scholarly journals Increasing Weekend Effect in Ground-Level O3 in Metropolitan Areas of Mexico during 1988–2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iván Hernández-Paniagua ◽  
Rodrigo Lopez-Farias ◽  
José Piña-Mondragón ◽  
Juan Pichardo-Corpus ◽  
Olivia Delgadillo-Ruiz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Total Population ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Weekend Effect ◽  
Monitoring Site ◽  
Lower Growth ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
Increasing Trends

Here, we present an assessment of long-term trends in the O3 weekend effect (WE) occurrences and spread within the Mexico City (MCMA), Guadalajara (GMA), and Monterrey (MMA) metropolitan areas, which are the three largest metropolitan areas (MAs) of Mexico and concentrate around 33% of the total population in the country. Daytime averages and peak differences in O3 concentrations from weekdays to weekends were used as a proxy of WE occurrence. All MAs exhibited the occurrence of WE in all years at least in one monitoring site. Substantial differences in O3 daytime averages and peaks from weekdays to weekends have decreased over time in all MAs, and since 1998 and 2013 for the MCMA and GMA, respectively, higher O3 levels during weekends are typical during most of the year. The largest variations in the O3 WE were observed at downwind and urban core sites of the MCMA and GMA. Significant increasing trends (p < 0.05) in the O3 WE magnitude were observed for Sundays at all sites within the MCMA, with trends in annual averages ranging between 0.33 and 1.29 ppb O3 yr−1. Within the GMA, for Sundays, fewer sites exhibited increasing trends in the WE occurrence and at lower growth rates (0.32 and 0.48 ppb yr−1, p < 0.1) than within the MCMA, while within the MMA no apparent trends were observed in marked contrast with the MCMA and GMA. Our findings suggest that policies implemented have been successful in controlling weekday ground-level O3 within the MCMA and GMA, but further actions must be introduced to control the increases in the O3 WE magnitude and spread.

Locating neighbourhood diversity in the American metropolis

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Walker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fort Worth ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Diversity Gradient ◽  
Low Diversity

Racial and ethnic diversity in the United States is on the rise, as the country is projected to no longer have a racial majority by the mid-2040s. Much of this diversity is found in the United States’ large metropolitan areas, where it manifests itself unevenly. While some metropolitan neighbourhoods are growing highly diverse, others remain segregated by race and ethnicity. This paper introduces a framework for exploring the geography of neighbourhood diversity in US metropolitan areas, and defines the diversity gradient, a visual representation of how diversity varies with distance from the urban core. Analysis of the geography of metropolitan diversity from 1990 to 2010 reveals that the greatest increases in diversity are found in the suburbs and outlying areas, where diversity now peaks in many large metropolitan areas. Additional spatial analyses of neighbourhood diversity in Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth show that clustering of highly diverse neighbourhoods has shifted to the suburbs from close-in urban areas, where many segregated and low-diversity neighbourhoods persist.

scholarly journals Urban-Rural Relationships in Feeding Metropolis: A Case Study in Ljubljana Metropolitan Area

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 259-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Sali ◽  
Stefano Corsi ◽  
Federica Monaco ◽  
Chiara Mazzocchi ◽  
Matjaž Glavan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Production Potential ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Definition Of

Metropolitan areas are characterized by the coexistence of a urban core insisting on natural resources of surrounding rural areas, strictly linked to the former. Inevitably, increasing urbanization and its consequences affect the model of urban development, which then needs to deal with the challenge of sustainability, also aiming to reduce pressures on resources and on supplying capacities of rural agricultural systems in providing food to urban zones, traditionally lacking. It then becomes important to deepen the possibility for the dense core to be supplied through proximity agriculture, able to recreate and improve synergic connections between urban and rural spheres. The paper aims to study the relationships among them for feeding the metropolis, adopting a methodology for the spatial definition of urban centre in metropolitan area and the assessment of its food balance, in order to identify the potentialities of local and proximity agriculture and provide a first evaluation for the possibility to match urban development and production potential. Identified tools are applied to Ljubljana metropolitan area.

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