Suburban Retail Spaces: Formative and Transformative Process

ISBN-13: 9783030549909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 96 str.

Vincenzo Buongiorno

Spis treści

Chapter 1 - Methodological introduction, research structure & state of the art

1.1. A method for studying the retail space

1.2. Research structure

1.3 State of the art

Chapter 2 - Suburban shopping mall as Urban Fabric

2.1 Territorial and urban scale

2.1.1. Special commercial routes

2.1.2. Special commercial settlements

2.2. Fabric scale

2.2.1. Commercial routes

2.2.2. Commercial nodes

2.2.3 Other elements of the fabric: block, contrada, base and aggregated units

2.3. Building scale

2.3.1 Base and aggregated commercial unit

2.3.1.1 Routes

2.3.1.2 Nodes

2.3.2 Special nodal/polar commercial unit

2.3.2.1 Routes

2.3.2.2 Nodes

2.3.3 Other elements of commercial units micro-fabric at building scale: block, contrada, base and

aggregate units

Chapter 3 - Suburban commercial fabric formative process

3.1. Territorial and urban scale

3.1.1. An ancient special route: the turnpike road

3.1.2 Continuous specialization in route design and construction

3.1.3. Nodes and poles formation for the special routes network

3.2. Fabric scale

3.2.1 Formation of ‘traditional’ urban fabric on new suburban routes: miracle mile and commercial

strip

3.2.2 Route and aggregate specialization: the bypass formation

3.2.3 Mature phase: the shopping center as specialized bypassed nodal fabric

3.3. Building scale

3.3.1. Boutique specialization and special commercial unit formative process

3.3.2. Further specialization of base, aggregated and special commercial units: supermarket and

self-service fabric organization

3.4. Graphic schemes: urban and suburban commercial special fabric formative/transformative

process, with examples

3.4.1. Formative/transformative process in urban context

3.4.1.1. Examples

3.4.2. Formative/transformative process in suburban context

3.4.2.1. Examples

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Chapter 4 - Retail spaces Crisis and Future transformative process

4.1 Territorial and urban scale

4.2. Aggregate scale

4.4 Building scale

4.5. Local/global retail spaces today - reading & transformation

4.5.1. "Galleria Porta di Roma” Shopping center, Rome, Italy

4.5.2. "Place Sainte Foy - Place de la Cité - Place Laurier” Shopping center, Quebec City, Canada

4.5.3. Urban block specialization and knotting in San Martin de las flores/San Pedro Tlaquepaque,

Guadalajara, Mexico

4.5.4. Overlapping cities cities: Montreal and Hong Kong

Chapter 5 - Conclusions

Bibliographic references

Iconographic sources

O autorze

Vincenzo Buongiorno, 1987, Architect and Ph.D. in architectural and urban morphology and design. Member of the research team in the “LPA - Laboratorio di Lettura e Progetto dell’Architettura" laboratory, DiAP - Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, "Sapienza" Università di Roma, Italy. 

His research activity focuses on the contemporary built reality morphological interpretation, with special interest in specialistic organisms at building/urban/territorial scales, and on the design outputs that can be produced through scientific investigation. Research and teaching experiences carried out in several contexts such as Italy, Canada, Mexico, Portugal and Cyprus. Professional experience in architectural, urban, and landscape design gained in the firms: JLCG João Luis Carrilho da Graça Arquitectos and GAP Global Arquitectura Paisagista, Lisbon, Portugal.