Shopping and Urbanity: Emerging Assemblages of Main Street, Mall, and Power Centre

Fujie Rao and Kim Dovey

Planning Theory & Practice, 2021, vol. 22, issue 5, 747-764

Abstract: Car-dependent cities of the mid-late twentieth century transformed urban shopping as shopping centres became privatised and separated from urban life – traditional main streets were often replaced by suburban malls and then power centres (big-box clusters). We identify 13 emerging synergies between these retail types and critique the ways the synergies may foster or endanger urban public life. This evidence suggests contradictory trends: a return to urbanity with more fine-grained, mixed-use, and pedestrian-friendly shopping, juxtaposed with anti-urban tendencies of entrenched car-dependency and sophisticated private control. The role of planning in creating resilient urbanity is at stake.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2021.1965647

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