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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban geography; consumption geography; geopolitics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The scope of this Special Issue on “Sustainability of Retail-Less Cities” is to provide both theoretical approaches and present data on changes in contemporary cities in the context of planetary urbanization. With the growing impact of globalization, and the effect that COVID-19 has had on commerce, three main problems need to be analyzed: 1) the sustainability of brick and mortar retail shops after the “retail apocalypse” and the big growth of e-commerce; 2) the evolution of consumption trends that seems to be the cultural logic of planetary urbanization with the diffusion of the same patterns everywhere; 3) how cities will be re-organized following the huge impact of teleworking and retail-less streets (concentration/diffusion; center/periphery; mobility at different scales).
Solutions to these problems must address different scales, from local to global, and consider the temporal evolution. The contemporary resilience and continuity of crises (economic, cultural, social, political) suggests the possibility of a transitional analysis from capitalism to a new production system, as suggested by Immanuel Wallerstein in 2013.
This Special Issue is inspired by a wide range of literature works around the hypothesis developed by the Urban Theory Lab of Harvard University, and Dr. Neil Brenner specifically, on the processes of planetary urbanization. Our aim is to combine this with the deep theoretical research of Brazilian Geographer Milton Santos on globalization and his methodological proposals. The Guest Editors of this Special Issue have more than 30 years of research experience in these fields, both at a regional scale (especially focused on the city of Barcelona) and international scale, with periodical seminars and publications by the City, Retail and Consumption network involving various cities (Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Toulouse, Naples, Mexico, Sao Palo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires).
Prof. Carles Carreras Verdaguer
Prof. Dr. Lluis Frago
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- planetary urbanization
- retail apocalypse
- urban planning
- global change