Vacant Shops in a Crisis Period – A Morphological Analysis in Portuguese Medium-Sized Cities

Miguel Saraiva, Teresa Sá Marques and Paulo Pinho

Planning Practice & Research, 2019, vol. 34, issue 3, 255-287

Abstract: Vacant shops are an important problem affecting urban areas today, particularly in the wake of the economic crisis. Most strategies to analyse and deal with this issue are related to economic and financial variables. However, the amount of research associating store geography and performance with urban morphology has increased over the past decade. Thus, this research tests the hypothesis that specific morphological features characterize vacant retail sites. Using four Portuguese cities as test-beds and Kernel density analysis to plot spatial patterns, vacant shops were for example positively correlated with low segment betweenness and negatively correlated with block area.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2019.1590766

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