Retailscape and Urban Landscape: an empirical study of the spatial organization of retail within the physical city.

Le commerce dans son contexte physique : comprendre les tissus commerciaux dans la ville.

Alessandro Araldi (1) , Giovanni Fusco (1)

1 ESPACE - Étude des Structures, des Processus d’Adaptation et des Changements de l’Espace

Retail geographers and urban morphologists investigated the relationship between the distribution of retail activities and urban form over the last century developing a large variety of approaches and methods. Retail geography traditionally focuses on the locational factors of retail localization, often overlooking the importance of the physical properties of the urban space, reduced to built-up density. Similarly, urban morphologists developed detailed measures of the urban form while seizing the retail system through simple descriptors of store concentration. The study of the relationship between retail and urban form should equally consider the complexity of both subsystems. To overcome this limitation, we propose in this paper a cross-analysis between patterns of retailscape and urban landscape defined at the street level through specific geoprocessing protocols developed in previous works. A multinomial generalized linear model (GLMs) and elastic-net (Enet) penalized regression (PR) are implemented. This modeling approach is tested on the case study of the French Riviera. The outcomes of this procedure show how a restricted number of urban form properties are found to be related to the micro-retail agglomeration types depending on the specific scale and morphological context under analysis.

Domaines: Géographie

Alessandro Araldi, Giovanni Fusco. Le commerce dans son contexte physique : comprendre les tissus commerciaux dans la ville.. 57ème colloque ASDRLF - Territoire(s) et numérique : innovations, mutations et décision, Sep 2021, Avignon, France. ⟨hal-03507788⟩