Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy

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Autor(a) principal: Tulumello, Simone
Data de Publicação: 2016
Outros Autores: Picone, Marco
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/24093
Resumo: Whilst shopping malls have been explored at length by critical urban studies, there has been little exploration of their role in restructuring the practice of urban and spatial planning. This article uses the shopping mall as an object of study in the light of the neoliberal trends and post-metropolisation in Southern Europe, with the aim of exploring challenges for urban governance and planning practice and with a focus on the role of the ongoing economic crisis. A threefold exploratory framework – the ‘lost-in-time scenario’, the ‘messianic mall model’ and the ‘(im)mature planning explanation’ – is used to make sense of the local versions of shopping mall development in Lisbon (Portugal) and Palermo (Southern Italy). According to findings, we highlight the clash between the multi-scalar nature of shopping malls and the dominance of the municipal scale in regulatory planning frameworks, and the risk that shopping mall development (at least in Southern Europe) may replicate uneven development patterns, reproducing the pre-conditions of the crisis without helping to overcome it.
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spelling Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policyUrban studiesComparative planning researchSouthern European crisisShopping centresWhilst shopping malls have been explored at length by critical urban studies, there has been little exploration of their role in restructuring the practice of urban and spatial planning. This article uses the shopping mall as an object of study in the light of the neoliberal trends and post-metropolisation in Southern Europe, with the aim of exploring challenges for urban governance and planning practice and with a focus on the role of the ongoing economic crisis. A threefold exploratory framework – the ‘lost-in-time scenario’, the ‘messianic mall model’ and the ‘(im)mature planning explanation’ – is used to make sense of the local versions of shopping mall development in Lisbon (Portugal) and Palermo (Southern Italy). According to findings, we highlight the clash between the multi-scalar nature of shopping malls and the dominance of the municipal scale in regulatory planning frameworks, and the risk that shopping mall development (at least in Southern Europe) may replicate uneven development patterns, reproducing the pre-conditions of the crisis without helping to overcome it.Centros comerciais e tendências neoliberais nas cidades da Europa do sul: desafios pós-metropolitanos para o planeamento urbano. Embora os centros comerciais tenham sido estudados a fundo nos estudos críticos urbanos, poucas análises existem sobre o seu papel na restruturação da prática do ordenamento do território e do planeamento urbano. Este artigo utiliza os centros comerciais como objeto de estudo, com o objetivo de explorar os desafios para a governança urbana e o planeamento urbano em tempos de tendências neoliberais e pós-metropolitização na Europa do Sul, questionando, ao mesmo tempo, o papel da atual crise económica. Com o objetivo de melhor compreender as versões locais do sucesso dos centros comerciais em Lisboa (Portugal) e Palermo (Itália do sul), utilizamos um quadro teórico composto por três componentes: ‘lost-in-time scenario’ (padrões temporais de desenvolvimento económico), ‘messianic mall model’ (questões socioculturais) e ‘(im)mature planning explanation’ (culturas de ordenamento). De acordo com as evidências, realçamos o conflito entre o cariz multi-escalar dos centros comerciais e a dominância da escala municipal nos sistemas de ordenamento territorial; e o perigo que o êxito dos centros comerciais (pelo menos na Europa do Sul) possa replicar padrões de desenvolvimento desigual e, de consequência, reproduzir as pre-condições da crise sem contribuir à recuperação.The article stems from the Italian National Research Programme (PRIN) “Post-metropolitan territories as emergent forms of urban space” funded by the Italian Ministry for Education and Research (MIUR). A first version of the article was presented at the AESOP 2014 Conference in Utrecht. Simone Tulumello is funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFR H/BPD/86394/2012). The authors wish to thank three anonymous reviewers for constructive critiques and comments.Centro de Estudos GeográficosRepositório da Universidade de LisboaTulumello, SimonePicone, Marco2016-06-20T10:56:12Z20162016-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/24093engTulumello, S. & Picone, M. (2016). Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy. Finisterra: revista portuguesa de geografia, Vol. 51 (101), 111-1320430-502710.18055/Finis7071info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-14T15:14:42ZPortal AgregadorONG
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title Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy
spellingShingle Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy
Tulumello, Simone
Urban studies
Comparative planning research
Southern European crisis
Shopping centres
title_short Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy
title_full Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy
title_fullStr Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy
title_full_unstemmed Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy
title_sort Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy
author Tulumello, Simone
author_facet Tulumello, Simone
Picone, Marco
author_role author
author2 Picone, Marco
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Tulumello, Simone
Picone, Marco
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Urban studies
Comparative planning research
Southern European crisis
Shopping centres
topic Urban studies
Comparative planning research
Southern European crisis
Shopping centres
description Whilst shopping malls have been explored at length by critical urban studies, there has been little exploration of their role in restructuring the practice of urban and spatial planning. This article uses the shopping mall as an object of study in the light of the neoliberal trends and post-metropolisation in Southern Europe, with the aim of exploring challenges for urban governance and planning practice and with a focus on the role of the ongoing economic crisis. A threefold exploratory framework – the ‘lost-in-time scenario’, the ‘messianic mall model’ and the ‘(im)mature planning explanation’ – is used to make sense of the local versions of shopping mall development in Lisbon (Portugal) and Palermo (Southern Italy). According to findings, we highlight the clash between the multi-scalar nature of shopping malls and the dominance of the municipal scale in regulatory planning frameworks, and the risk that shopping mall development (at least in Southern Europe) may replicate uneven development patterns, reproducing the pre-conditions of the crisis without helping to overcome it.
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