City, Retail and Consumption

Libera D'Alessandro

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-110-9

City, Retail and Consumption

Authors

Libera D'Alessandro

University of Naples L’Orientale

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-9857

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-110-9

Keywords:

City, Retail, Consumption

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: MIscellaneous

Pages: 476

Language: Italian, English

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-28093

Abstract: City, Retail and Consumption focuses on changing urban spaces through the interpretative key offered by retail and consumption, between globalization processes and the embeddedness in local contexts. The book was published in 2015 as the result of the fourth international seminar on the three issues, carried out at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” from 14 to 17 October 2013 thanks to the contribution of geographers from various countries (Brazil, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain) and enriched by contributions from specialists (architects, urban planners, engineers, economists) and stakeholders. The volume collects almost fifty texts written after a fruitful debate not only about theories, approaches and methods but also about the practical implications of the urban planning for shopping and consumption places. The case studies range from Sao Paulo to Presidente Prudente, from Buenos Aires to Mexico City and again from Barcelona and Lleida to Lisbon, Paris, Ankara, Copenhagen and many Italian cities. Through different scales of analysis, the contributors have indeed paid their attention on relevant issues to urban studies: resilience, sustainability, dialectic between public and private spaces, impact of e-commerce in urban areas, residential and retail gentrification, neoliberalism and the right to the city.

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Author Biography

Libera D'Alessandro, University of Naples L’Orientale

Libera D’Alessandro, PhD in Geography of Development, at present is Associate Professor in Political and Economic Geography (Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”). In 2010 she received from the Italian Geographical Society the 12^th Award for Young Researcher in geographical sciences. The main line of research has focused on urban studies through the key of retail and consumption geography, both from the theoretical and the empirical point of view. She has published more than 60 scientific articles and essays in International and Italian works, including the book “Attività commerciali e spazi urbani. Per un approccio geografico al centro storico di Napoli”, with a grant from the Italian National Research Council (CNR). She has participated in different research projects and in many invited seminar and lectures in Italy and abroad. She takes an active part in the international network on City, Urban Retail and Consumption with colleagues from Brazil, France, Mexico, Argentina, Portugal and Spain, as well as in the working group of the Association of Italian Geographers ‘The places of commerce between tradition and innovation’, as responsible for relations with national and international networks.