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Category Archives: Shopping Centres
Analysing and Understanding Shopping Centres
One of the good things about being a Professor of Retail Studies is that you get to meet interesting people with interesting ideas. Over the last year or so I have been involved on some executive education with Bayfield Training … Continue reading
A Japanese Eataly? In Singapore?
Regular readers of this blog will recall that I have a bit of a thing for Eataly, the destination food retail and dining concept showcasing the best in Italian local, slow and seasonal products and other gourmet food and cooking. … Continue reading
Posted in Eataly, Emporium Shokuhin, Experiential, Food, Food Quality, Food Retailing, Gastronomy, Japanese, Markets, Restaurants, Scotland Food and Drink, Seafood, Shopping Centres, Singapore, Slow Food
Tagged Concept Store, Eataly, Emporium Shokuhin, Food, Japan, Restaurants, Seafood, Singapore
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Time Flies
Remarkably – well to me anyhow – it has been almost six weeks since I last posted on here. It is not as though things haven’t been happening or that I have not been busy, it is just life has … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Diet and Health, Food, Food Court, Health, Hospital, Pharmacy, Retailing, Shopping Centres, Singapore, Sport, University of Stirling
Tagged Community, Design, Food Court, Health, Hospital, Pharmacy, Shopping Centres, Singapore
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Singapore Times
As regular readers of this blog already know, the Institute for Retail Studies at the University of Stirling has had programmes and partners in Singapore for a long time, targeted both at Singaporean students and retailers and those in the … Continue reading
Early Warning: PhD Student Wanted!
One evening last week I had one of those great emails, bringing good news. I had been successful in the ESRC Scottish Graduate School for the Social Sciences Collaborative Studentship Competition. With only 10 awarded across the whole of Scotland … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Capitals?
Over the last couple of weekends I have been in Edinburgh and London, and for various reasons spent some time in arguably the two major off-centre shopping centres in each city – the Gyle in Edinburgh and Westfield Stratford in … Continue reading
Posted in Closure, Design, Olympics, Retail Economy, Retail Planning, Shopping Centres
Tagged Edinburgh, gyle, London, re-development, Shopping Centres, Vacancies
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Private (Olympic) Space
A few years ago a number of retail academics gathered at a conference in Columbus, Ohio. The local shopping centre was a little bit different to the run of the mill American mall, having pavements and streets, with on street … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer Change, High Streets, Olympics, Public Realm, Shopping Centres, Town Centres
Tagged Closure, Olympics, Public Space, Shopping Centres
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