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Place innovative synergies for city center attractiveness: a matter of experiencing retail and retailing experiences
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Abstract By investigating the occurrence of place innovative synergies between retail and tourism in a small-sized Swedish city, this article advances knowledge on how city center attractiveness can be enforced in a rural context with competing online shopping and suburban/out-of-town shopping centers. Previ... view more
By investigating the occurrence of place innovative synergies between retail and tourism in a small-sized Swedish city, this article advances knowledge on how city center attractiveness can be enforced in a rural context with competing online shopping and suburban/out-of-town shopping centers. Previous studies of city center attractiveness, place innovation, and social innovation help distinguish innovative intertwinement of correlated trends of experiencing retail and retailing experiences, augmenting customer experiences through place-based characteristics. Interviews, workshops, and participatory observations with entrepreneurs, business promoters, and municipality representatives reveal three dimensions of place innovative synergies in city center attractiveness: 1) innovative variance in city center retail and tourism, 2) innovative interwovenness between the city center identity and its configuration, content, and communication, and 3) innovative interaction between retailers and tourism entrepreneurs in city center events. A key question is whether synergies in temporal events and everyday commerce are sufficiently combined, in order to engender encompassing renewal.... view less
Keywords
Sweden; town; city center; identity; synergy; tourism; innovation; retail trade; selling; promotion of economic development
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Economic Sectors
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 91-105
Journal
Urban Planning, 4 (2019) 1
Issue topic
The transformative power of urban planning through social innovation
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed