Smooth flows, unhurried stays: everyday organizing in a downtown commercial centre
| Autor: | Sari Yli-Kauhaluoma, Päivi Timonen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Engineering
Downtown business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Public relations Civil engineering Urban Studies Negotiation Social space Empirical research Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Public transport 11. Sustainability 0502 economics and business business 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Urban Design. 21:816-835 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9664 1357-4809 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13574809.2016.1234333 |
| Popis: | This study explores local actors’ participation in everyday organizing and thereby in the production and maintenance of social space in the urban milieu of a downtown commercial centre. By local actors, the study refers to retailers and maintenance workers such as security guards, cleaners and facility managers. The study is based on extensive empirical research being conducted in the Kamppi Centre, located in the heart of the city of Helsinki, Finland. The Kamppi Centre consists of a complex of commercial shops, offices, residential housing and public transportation terminals. It is a hectic urban milieu in a Finnish context and operates 24/7. The study identifies critical locations in the Kamppi Centre, particularly entrances, as well as the central indoor shopping plaza and the corridors where local actors are constantly negotiating the social space with the public. These places provide endless challenges to local actors’ everyday dealings with people and to the material flows and stopovers at ... |
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