Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16868
Title: Consuming spaces or living places: the competition policy and centres policy dilemma for Main Street planning
Contributor(s): Wood, Stephen  (author)orcid ; Baker, Robert G  (author)
Publication Date: 2014
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.1080/21650020.2014.888318Open Access Link
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16868
Abstract: This paper engages with the issue of growing tensions in Australian retail planning between centres policy and competition policy. Centres policies, including restrictions on supermarket locations, have long been viewed by many retail planners as key to the maintenance of Main Street viability and vitality. More recently, advocates of competition policy have suggested existing centres policies are anti-competitive, and have argued for a more 'flexible' approach to centres development. Against this backdrop, the broad aim of the paper is to explore how more relaxed controls on supermarket locations might affect Main Street viability and vitality. Two town centres are examined, each associated with different degrees of regulation and characterised by different levels of competition. The effects of these differences on the viability and vitality of the respective centres are explored through analysis of the movement patterns of 148 tracked pedestrians, along with various land use and built form factors.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Urban, Planning and Transport Research: An Open Access Journal, 2(1), p. 1-21
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 2165-0020
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 120506 Transport Planning
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 330409 Transport planning
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970112 Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280104 Expanding knowledge in built environment and design
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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