Town centre management: developing new strategies based on the e-technology challenge
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description: Over time, the Town Centre has always had an important role in the development of local economies (McAteer and Stephens, 2011), experiencing periods of growth and decline that influenced its physiognomy. The Town Centre’s decline was caused by several different factors, such as the decentralization of retail activities away from, and on the edge of, the Town Centre (Schiller, 1986; 1988), and the development of new forms of selling over the Internet (Bhatti, 2007; Ickler, et al., 2011). All in all, this has led to a crisis for Town Centre’s retailers, prejudicing their development and enhancement (Alzubaidi et al., 1997; Thomas and Bromley, 2003). In order to contrast the pauperization of the Town Centre and to improve its growth, during the last decades in several European Cities was created the Town Centre Management (TCM) schemes, to find practical responses to the emerging complexities of urban revitalisation (Coca- Stefaniak et al., 2009). Taking into consideration this scenario, the aim of this work is to further the understanding of the role-played by TCM’s over time in revitalizing the commercial activities in the Town Centre. Studying TCM programs and activities carried out in different European cities will work towards that better understanding of their effectiveness. By investigating the TCM programs in some Swedish and Italian cities, this study aims at identifying the core elements in the TCM strategies related to improving and developing the Town Centre. This thesis is organized in three autonomous papers, where each of them constitutes a specification of one general topic. The first paper aims to analyse the existing literature to highlight scholars’ point of view and, to verify whether the retail activity maintains the central role in the perspective of the Town Centre revitalization, or if the attention has shifted to other activities. One question of this analysis is: What are the research lines that emerge as attracting interest for future develop…
abstract: Over time, the Town Centre has always had an important role in the development of local economies (McAteer and Stephens, 2011), experiencing periods of growth and decline that influenced its physiognomy. The Town Centre’s decline was caused by several different factors, such as the decentralization of retail activities away from, and on the edge of, the Town Centre (Schiller, 1986; 1988), and the development of new forms of selling over the Internet (Bhatti, 2007; Ickler, et al., 2011). All in all, this has led to a crisis for Town Centre’s retailers, prejudicing their development and enhancement (Alzubaidi et al., 1997; Thomas and Bromley, 2003). In order to contrast the pauperization of the Town Centre and to improve its growth, during the last decades in several European Cities was created the Town Centre Management (TCM) schemes, to find practical responses to the emerging complexities of urban revitalisation (Coca- Stefaniak et al., 2009). Taking into consideration this scenario, the aim of this work is to further the understanding of the role-played by TCM’s over time in revitalizing the commercial activities in the Town Centre. Studying TCM programs and activities carried out in different European cities will work towards that better understanding of their effectiveness. By investigating the TCM programs in some Swedish and Italian cities, this study aims at identifying the core elements in the TCM strategies related to improving and developing the Town Centre. This thesis is organized in three autonomous papers, where each of them constitutes a specification of one general topic. The first paper aims to analyse the existing literature to highlight scholars’ point of view and, to verify whether the retail activity maintains the central role in the perspective of the Town Centre revitalization, or if the attention has shifted to other activities. One question of this analysis is: What are the research lines that emerge as attracting interest for future develop…
author: CABONI, FEDERICA
language: eng
keywords: Cagliari, Town centre management, mobile commerce, public and private collaboration, retailing, social commerce, town centre development strategies, town centre revitalization model, Settore SECS-P/08 - Economia e Gestione delle Imprese
date published: 2014-06-16
date modified: 2026-07-24T01:30:09Z
provider: Università di Cagliari
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Università degli Studi di Cagliari

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