scholarly journals Motivations for choosing brick-and-mortar stores between urban commerce and shopping centers: the case of Logroño retail

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Yolanda Sierra-Murillo ◽  
Jorge Pelegrín-Borondo ◽  
Cristina Olarte-Pascual ◽  
Natalia Medrano
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The City ◽  
Fundamental Conclusion

The aim of this work is to identify the reasons behind the choice of brick-and-mortar stores to make purchases and provide new evidence of the role that such establishments play in the omnichannel environment. An empirical study carried out in the city of Logroño (Spain) shows that utilitarian and hedonic motives are intertwined and differ according to age. Young people opt for shopping centers and the range of products and services they have to offer. Adults and elderly customers associate personal attention with shops located in the city center. The fundamental conclusion of the present work is that the establishments located in shopping centers and urban centers can coexist, each developing their own strengths. Both types of establishments provide interesting benefits for consumers who, in certain situations, opt for brick-and-mortar stores and value the offline shopping experience.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Ring Road Conclusion to the City of Guimarães, Portugal: Analysis of Variations of Traffic Flows and Accessibilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Traffic Volume ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Ring Road ◽  
High Traffic Volume ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The high traffic volume is the main source of the congestion in cities, which is a big problem on transportation systems. This congestion is the main cause of the increase in the level of noise and air pollution in urban centers what directly affects the quality of life of the population. Also, contributing to the big number of vehicle conflicts that affects the performance of the transportation systems and the quality of life of the population. These problems are the result of the high volumes of the through traffic. Therefore, to reduce the traffic volume in urban center of Guimarães, Portugal we studied a possible conclusion of the ring road, on the slope of the Penha hill for the morning peak hour. To carry out our study, the Origin – Destination Matrix for peak hour was estimated from the data of traffic counts. Concluding that there was a reduction of the traffic volume in the section of the ring road that was already built. However, in the city center there were no major variations of the traffic volume and accessibilities.

scholarly journals KOTA-KOTA EKS KERESIDENAN KEDU (KAJIAN MORFOLOGI KOTA BERSEJARAH)

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-182
Author(s):  
Dwi Pradnyawan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Morphology ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Growth And Change ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
City Structure ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time

The cities of the former Kedu Residency are part of cities in Java that have experienced growth and change over time. Although not a big cities in its time, the cities of the former Kedu Residency show an important role in the interior of Central Java. Its distinctive history in the 19th and 20th centuries formed a city center with an interesting city structure to study. This study aims to study the urban centers of the former Kedu Residency, namely the City of Magelang, Purworejo, Temanggung, Wonosobo, and Kebumen through urban morphology approach by observing the forms (morpho) of the city, such as urban tissue or city shaped, road tissue, land arrangements and buildings. The morphology analysis of the city in the urban centers of the former Kedu Residency shows the interesting facts, namely the development of the city, specifically the city center, from time to time while maintaining the basic characteristics of the traditional city morphology.

scholarly journals Tackling the ‘death’ of brick-and-mortar clothing retailers through store atmospherics and customer experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Etuhole Angula ◽  
Valencia Melissa Zulu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Academic Leaders ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Store Environment ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The threat of online shopping propels brick-and-mortar retailers to innovate and design their retail atmosphere to create unforgettable shopping experiences to compete effectively and retain customers. The study firstly identifies store atmospherics factors that enhance the shopping experience and secondly explores the hypothesized relationships between store atmospherics dimensions (lighting, music, layout, and employee interaction) and customer experience. Furthermore, the effect of customer experience and repurchase intention is also explored. A self-administered survey was used, and data were collected from 390 respondents who visit physical clothing stores regularly in the City of Johannesburg in South Africa. The survey results were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) for descriptive statistics. Covariance-Based Structural Equation Modelling (CB-SEM) was utilized for the path analysis. The findings reveal that only store layout, lighting, and employee interaction are essential elements in creating pleasurable customer in-store experiences (β = 0.163, p = 0.05; β = 0.207, p = 0.01; β = 0.293, p = 0.001). It is also evident that consumers perceive music to be less effective in enhancing their shopping experiences (β = 0.048, p = ns). Moreover, the results show that enriching customer experiences stimulate repeat purchases (β = 0.745, p = 0.001). The findings demonstrate that innovating the store environment should be based on shop layout, illumination, and employee contact to create appealing experiences. This study contributes to consumer and retailing services literature. Acknowledgment This study is based on the research supported partly by the University of the Witwatersrand Chancellor’s Female Academic Leaders Fellowship.

scholarly journals The Marginal Cost of Traffic Congestion and Road Pricing: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Beijing

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 418-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Yang ◽  
Avralt-Od Purevjav ◽  
Shanjun Li
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Road Pricing ◽  
Traffic Density ◽  
Traffic Data ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Restriction Policy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Severe traffic congestion is ubiquitous in large urban centers. This paper provides the first causal estimate of the relationship between traffic density and speed and optimal congestion charges using real-time fine-scale traffic data in Beijing. The identification relies on plausibly exogenous variation in traffic density induced by Beijing’s driving restriction policy. Optimal congestion charges range from 5 to 39 cents per km depending on time and location. Road pricing would increase traffic speed by 11 percent within the city center and lead to an annual welfare gain of ¥1.5 billion from reduced congestion and revenue of ¥10.5 billion. (JEL H23, O18, P25, R41, R48)

Mammon and God

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-690
Author(s):  
Daniel Luttrull
Keyword(s):  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
City Center ◽  
Train Station ◽  
Circuitous Route ◽  
The City

In “The Artificial Nigger,” Flannery O’Connor provides directions for the reader to precisely follow her characters’ circuitous route from the city center to the suburban train station where they end their journey. While the Heads find themselves in three of the city’s shopping centers, O’Connor is careful to keep them from coming within sight of any of the city’s churches. O’Connor uses this commercialized Atlanta to examines the claim that commerce can make people “too busy to hate.” She then moves into an allegorical register in which the market represents judgement and the Heads experience grace only after leaving it.

scholarly journals Activate the city center utility Measure the variables to activate the functionality of the city center case stady: AL-Kut city center

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-173
Author(s):  
احسان عباس جاسم
Keyword(s):  
Urban Transport ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Performance Career ◽  
Center Axis ◽  
The City

Cities turn constantly grow and decay, Jobs many of its parts are constantly changing and therefore land use change, this change is a natural thing and the year of the ways of the universe, but in all cases and in all kinds of cities and all over the world is the city center is the city center of the most important of their parts and linked to the effectiveness of the city economic and social Hoitha closely linked to design the city center, whether small cities and concentric or large multicenter Disembowels main center axis performance career city it contains a large share of the buildings of all ages and styles and play an important and unique role in economic and social development so the city in order to be strong and prosperous must be right position and strong and free of problems. And make up the commercial, social and cultural center, this area is the most parts of the city easy access, where the focus of the urban transport network. The rapid growth of the Iraqi cities has led to a rapid transformation in the city centers, this transformation has not planned well and appropriately and led thus to the decline in the quality of life in cities, research has investigated the best ways and methods to determine the growth centers and Taktihaa trends to fit into the new job with the expansion of cities, as was the use of surveys and analysis of geographic information systems, and search out that urban centers are suffering a lot of problems and defects and should be reconsidered and planned development of appropriate its standards.

scholarly journals TransCad analysis and GIS techniques to evaluate transportation network in Nasiriyah city

2018 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 03029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaynab Qasim ◽  
Abdul-Razzak Ziboon ◽  
Khaldoon Falih
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Flow Speed ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
The Road ◽  
Traffic Volumes ◽  
The City

Transportation is an essential element for the development of countries economically, socially, and culturally. AL-Nasiriyah is one of the highly congested urban centers within Dhi-Qar province. Network in the city center suffers congestion, particularly during peak hours simply because of the existence of vitality centers (educational, commercial and government). The network is used to assess the flow of the current traffic network patterns through several programs such as the (TransCad, GPS, GIS) so collecting different types of data, such as (Traffic volumes and free flow speed) using a device (MSSS), field surveys is done for the work of large-scale map road network.The results of the evaluation showed that most of the roads in the city have a level of service type (B), as the network showed service-level type (F) at which the vehicle relative to the road capacity (v/c) is greater than one in the city center, such as (Habboubi Street, Nasir bridge, Sumer Street, etc.) as illustrated in analysis map. On the basis of that proposed to add new roads to change path of external - external trips and also add new bridges to get rid of the congestion that appeared in the city center.

scholarly journals Commuting in Urban Kenya: Unpacking Travel Demand in Large and Small Kenyan Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 3823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Salon ◽  
Sumila Gulyani
Keyword(s):  
Travel Demand ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Travel Patterns ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Travel ◽  
Commute Time ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Commuting Patterns ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The City

In Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, streets are regularly gridlocked. While it is clear that roads are congested at peak hours, it is not known which commuters are experiencing that congestion or what their commute times actually are. Even less is known about commuting patterns in other Kenyan cities. This paper contributes new evidence on commuting from a survey of 14,580 households, conducted in 15 Kenyan cities in 2013. Walking and matatus—privately-operated paratransit—account for 89% of all adult commuting in urban Kenya. As cities increase in size, the proportion relying on walking falls and matatu use increases. Within a city, commuters with higher income and education, and those living further from the city center, are more likely to use matatus rather than walk. Commute times are surprisingly short. In smaller Kenyan cities the median commute time is just 20 min. In Nairobi, the median commute time is 30 min, and only 5% of those surveyed reported commuting an hour or longer. These data paint a remarkably sustainable picture of urban travel patterns in Kenya. As incomes, education levels, and demand for motorized travel rise, the challenge will be to expand and improve the system while maintaining its sustainability.

scholarly journals Urban Visual Quality Of Traditional Kut City Center

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Hussam S. O. Aldelphi
Keyword(s):  
Visual Quality ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Residential Units ◽  
Quality Of Urban Life ◽  
The City

"This paper addresses of urban visual quality at Traditional Kut City Center as an important part of urban life concept. Where most of the traditional city centers suffer from unorganized interventions and urban disruption, affecting the identity and future of the city and its quality of urban life. To achieve the objectives of this paper, the study area was divided into three main areas: the river side, the middle part, and the part overlooking the residential units. A quantitative analysis of the city center (the three parts) was prepared and analyzed using the SWAT method. A questionnaire was prepared and answered by a group of experts with expertise and specialization in the field of urban design and architecture to answer the set of axes allocated to the questionnaire. The research found that there is a positive correlation between these indicators. The more attention is paid to the visual urban image indicators of the traditional city center, the clearer the urban environment will be, thus increasing the city’s visual value and quality of life. To improve the urban visual quality at Traditional Kut City Center, the research considers the need to attention of three vertical indicators, and look at to urban sustainability as an important part of enhancing the visual quality of the city center, where sustainability works with visual quality first by determining the standards of construction and urban intervention of The traditional city of Kut, And secondly, the morphological formation of the traditional center which is the main factor in the concept of enhancing the visual quality of urban centers in the cities."

scholarly journals Inheritance development of compositional-spatial features of the city center

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Larisa Skoryk
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Time System ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City ◽  
Historic Cities

The article considers the issues of the integrity of the spatial organization of urban centers in the process of their development due to the hereditary use of the features of external and internal compositional constructions and connections. The central part of the historic city, with all the variety of its microstructures, has the unity of internal compositional-spatial solutions of the open in space and time system of the city center. Particular attention is paid to the composition of urban centers, the desire for clarity of their definition, to emphasize the internal integrity, to highlight the structure of the city. At the same time, the center should be the focus of the characteristics of the city as a whole, to determine its image, uniqueness, individuality. Determining the basic principles of hereditary development of compositional and spatial features of urban centers expands the boundaries of research on the interdependence of semantic and semiotic characteristics of their structure in the process of development and in modern conditions. The city center is a concentrated imagination of the unusualness that is so necessary for the inhabitants of cities that are too uniform in the processes of modern technical and technological progress. These processes are inseparable from the threat of erasure of individual features in the field of urban planning, which today in comparison with the historical architectural and urban heritage is characterized by much less socio-humanistic specificity in only one city, but also the country and even a number of countries. This fact underlies the emotional-aesthetic phenomenon, which is the attraction of the inhabitants of anonymous cities to the uniqueness of the environment, preserved in the central parts of historic cities. That is why the preservation of the originality of the compositional and spatial constructions of the city center acquires special significance.

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