Orr, A., Stewart, J., Jackson, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-8835-8845 et al. (1 more author) (2023) Not quite the 'death of the high street' in UK city centres: rising vacancy rates and the shift in land use richness and diversity. Cities, 133. 104124. ISSN 0264-2751
Abstract
This paper explores the inter-connections between property use diversity, change of use, and the adaptive capacity within urban retailing systems. The retailing centres of five UK case study cities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, and Nottingham, are examined over a twenty-year period using original databases on property use and geospatial mapping techniques to employ property use richness and diversity metrics in a novel manner. Overall, the analysis finds property use richness has generally risen as comparison retailing and financial services have contracted, to be replaced by hospitality, leisure, and residential uses. However, this re-balancing has not been even across retailing centres and is outstripped by rising vacancies. The study also reveals spatial variation in change of use and use diversity and richness as retailing centres slowly adapt, implying that future policymaking should focus on creating more resilient, mixed use city centres as an alternative to the single use retail high streets of the past.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Retailing systems; real estate, property use; change of use; property use richness; property use diversity; mixed use |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/R005117/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 06 Dec 2022 16:34 |
Last Modified: | 14 Dec 2022 17:53 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cities.2022.104124 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193917 |