Planning for resilient central-city shopping districts in the post-Covid era: an explanatory case study of the Hoddle Grid in Melbourne

Social and ecological resilience: are they related?

Fujie Rao, Sun Sheng Han and Ran Pan

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2022, vol. 15, issue 3, 575-596

Abstract: This research explores how central-city shopping districts could be transformed to support a post-Covid lifestyle, where people re-embrace community, local streets and walking while relying more on online shopping. By reviewing metropolitan/city development plans since the 1980s and mapping changes of retail provisions, urban environment and pedestrian movements in Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid in the twenty-first century, this paper shows that planning policies focusing on people-centred experiences in the central-city shopping district helped to improve retail resilience. This paper thus adds insights to understanding the relentless retail landscape changes and has implications for central-city retail planning in the post-Covid era.

Keywords: adaptive resilience; retail planning; online retailing; urbanity; mix; pedestrian (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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