What does it mean to “shop local”? Examining the experiences of shoppers and store owners within the framework of downtown revitalization

2022 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 102890
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Wilson ◽  
Nancy J. Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Downtown Revitalization

scholarly journals Addressing downtown vitality in a Canadian context : the cases of Brockville and Oakville, Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carly Danielle Aileen Dodds
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
North American ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Downtown Revitalization ◽  
Municipal Planning ◽  
Strategic Review ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
Insight Into

Downtown vitality has become an important planning issue as commercial retail evolves, development continues to sprawl, and global economic restructuring impacts North American economies. This paper reviews the literature on downtown revitalization and examines the process behind municipal planning led downtown revitalization and vitality retention approaches. Case studies of Brockville and Oakville, Ontario are used to understand a regulatory approach, in the form of a downtown strategic review. In-person interviews with municipal and community officials were undertaken to gain insight into the process of these two initiatives. While both of the approaches have positive aspects, a combination of the two is identified as most favorable in addressing downtown vitality.

What Brand Is This Place? Place-Making and the Cultural Politics of Downtown Revitalization

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramzi R. Farhat
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Downtown Revitalization ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Communities Of Interest ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Cultural Economies

This article investigates place-branding as a contested “cultural politics.” Through a case study of the creation of a “Downtown” Pomona (California) from the “Antiques Row” and “Arts Colony” that preceded it, the framework furthers our understanding of place-branding by highlighting how communities of interest contest competing cultural outlooks and further outlines the consequences of inadequate attention to the cultural economies that are supported by the meaning-making and place-making strategies of this cultural politics. In discussing how coalitions that cut across business and community interests contest cultural outlooks in an intralocal politics, the analysis offers an alternative to both elite/local and use/exchange approaches to the study of place-branding.

scholarly journals Making “The Garden City of the South”: Beautification, Preservation, and Downtown Planning in Augusta, Georgia

2019 ◽  
pp. 153851321987327
Author(s):  
J. Mark Souther
Keyword(s):  
Historic Preservation ◽  
Garden City ◽  
Downtown Revitalization ◽  
Civic Leaders ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Southern City ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Horticulture ◽  
Planning Approaches

This article illuminates how a smaller southern city engaged broader planning approaches. Civic leaders, especially women, pushed and partnered with municipal administrations to beautify Augusta, Georgia, a city with extraordinarily wide streets and a long tradition of urban horticulture. Their efforts in the 1900s to 1950s, often in concert with close by planners, led to a confluence of urban beautification, historic preservation, and downtown revitalization in the 1960s. This coordinated activity reshaped Augusta’s cityscape, exacerbated racial tensions, and enshrined principles of the City Beautiful, Garden City, and parks movements long after they receded in large cities, influencing the work of nationally prominent planners commissioned in the 1970s and 1980s.

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