Rethinking Southampton and town centre futures
Rethinking Southampton and town centre futures
Purpose - Designed to update research work carried out in the early 2000s on the development and impacts of Southampton's West Quay retail development on the urban milieu of the city.
Design/methodology/approach - Summarises the findings of detailed research work carried out at West Quay over a five year period.
Findings - Suggests that developments that have taken place at West Quay have been overwhelmingly positive for the city and that, as such, the Southampton example supports the case for retail-led urban regeneration.
Practical implications - Southampton's position - as one of the first cities in the UK to embark on a city centre retail-led regeneration scheme - finds it extremely well-placed to provide important lessons to other local authorities currently in the process of developing large-scale retail developments in their city centres.
Originality/value - This paper updates a detailed study of the history and development of the West Quay retail scheme in the city of Southampton. It seeks to draw a series of wider conclusions from the case and is offered in the spirit of generating debate on this issue.
regeneration, retailing, shopping centres, united kingdom, urban centres
639-646
Lowe, Michelle
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2007
Lowe, Michelle
ef0bda2e-3e2c-428f-9c0b-cc8551ff255e
Lowe, Michelle
(2007)
Rethinking Southampton and town centre futures.
International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, 35 (8), .
(doi:10.1108/09590550710758621).
Abstract
Purpose - Designed to update research work carried out in the early 2000s on the development and impacts of Southampton's West Quay retail development on the urban milieu of the city.
Design/methodology/approach - Summarises the findings of detailed research work carried out at West Quay over a five year period.
Findings - Suggests that developments that have taken place at West Quay have been overwhelmingly positive for the city and that, as such, the Southampton example supports the case for retail-led urban regeneration.
Practical implications - Southampton's position - as one of the first cities in the UK to embark on a city centre retail-led regeneration scheme - finds it extremely well-placed to provide important lessons to other local authorities currently in the process of developing large-scale retail developments in their city centres.
Originality/value - This paper updates a detailed study of the history and development of the West Quay retail scheme in the city of Southampton. It seeks to draw a series of wider conclusions from the case and is offered in the spirit of generating debate on this issue.
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Published date: 2007
Keywords:
regeneration, retailing, shopping centres, united kingdom, urban centres
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Local EPrints ID: 183235
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/183235
ISSN: 0959-0552
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