Principles of urban structure in social spaces of shopping malls

Type: Article

Number of downloads: 4124

Download resource

PDF

Cite

BibTeX EndNote

Title: Principles of urban structure in social spaces of shopping malls
Variant of the title: Odzyskiwanie miejskiej przestrzeni zamieszkiwania
Author: Berezko, Olena
Published in: Środowisko Mieszkaniowe/Housing Environment
Numbering: nr 13
Pages: 5-11
Release date: 2014
Place of publication: Kraków
Publisher: Wydawnictwo Katedry Kształtowania Środowiska Mieszkaniowego. Wydział Architektury Politechniki Krakowskiej
Language: English
ISSN: 1731-2442
eISSN: 2543-8700
Keywords: shopping mall, social space, urban structure, urban architecture, mall, retail space, public space
Abstract: Today it is hard to imagine a large modern city without a shopping mall. Actually mall emerged as a kind of city center for periphery residents. However, in today’s fast paced life the concept of “everything under one roof” has become an integral part of the urban structure. Mall makes it possible to meet not one but a number of needs at once. The fact that mall is analogous to city centre is confirmed not only by their functional content similarity, but also by structure. Like urban web is anchored at nodes of human activity, “shopping mall web” is anchored on nodes of retail and entertainment spaces. Like urban structures have a hierarchy of connections (from footpaths to roads), shopping mall structure has a hierarchy of social spaces (from side malls to the centre court). Despite this similarity, the socialization and communication problems in shopping malls remain unsolved. In this study the comparative analysis of urban and shopping mall structures was performed. We defined the key urban structure principles suitable for effective formation of social and public spaces of malls.
PKT classification: 640000 Architektura
Department: Zbiory cyfrowe BPK
License: Licencja PK
Access rights: Zasób dostępny dla wszystkich