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Creating Prosperous City Centres Post-Pandemic Through Repurposing Retail Space

通过重新利用零售空间，在大流行后创造繁荣的城市中心

基本信息

批准号：
ES/W010771/1
负责人：
Sina Shahab
金额：
$ 6.4万
依托单位：
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW010771%2F1
关键词：
Creating Prosperous City Centres Post

项目摘要

There are increasing concerns that city centre retail spaces are becoming obsolete in the UK and South Korea. Research shows that many cities in advanced economies have too much retail space and insufficient demand from retailers. This has led to high retail vacancy rates, particularly in city centres that have struggled in recent years to attract sufficient visitors to remain economically sustainable. The growth of e-commerce and online shopping, which has been further accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, has reduced the need for shoppers to visit physical retail centres. The pre-pandemic data showed that 24% of total retail sales in South Korea and 19% in the UK took place online (Savills, 2020), which suggests that the issue of redundant retail space is likely to get worse.The issue of redundant retail space is a major concern for decision makers in the UK and South Korea. The UK Government recently published a policy paper entitled 'Build Back Better High Streets' (15 July 2021) which sets out the government's vision for the future of the high street. Previously, an independent review into UK high streets concluded that "high streets have reached a crisis point" (Portas, 2011). Similarly, the central government in South Korea introduced an Urban Regeneration New Deal project in 2017 to revitalise declining urban centres, followed by a Green New Deal project in 2021 to account for the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite these efforts in both countries, key questions have remained unanswered: How should these important city centre spaces be repurposed? What is the role of urban planners and designers in repurposing these spaces? How should local communities be engaged in city centre transformations? And, how should retail repurposing projects be financed?The accelerating trend of vacant and redundant retail space in city centres means, there is an urgent need to explore the repurposing of retail space in city centres. Repurposing is the crucial means of reimaging, redesigning, and regenerating city centres in the post-pandemic world. This collaboration therefore aims to share knowledge and experience of practice and research on the planning and regeneration of retail spaces in city centres in the UK and South Korea to identify current and future challenges and develop solutions. Through a series of workshops, site visits, and collaborations, we will advance our understanding of the evolving role of city centres in the post-pandemic world. We will explore creative ways to create activity-based community gathering places where retail is a smaller part of a more diverse and sustainable mix of commercial and leisure uses, and where green space, leisure, arts and culture, and health and social care services are combined with housing to create a space based on social and community interactions.Specifically, the goals of the proposed activities will be to: 1) share UK and South Korean inter-disciplinary expertise on planning and regenerating retail spaces in city centres, 2) evaluate current efforts to redevelop vacant retail centres in South Korea and the UK, and consider the applicability of policy, design, and cultural transfer between contexts, 3) define the future challenges, opportunities, and gaps in knowledge related to repurposing retail spaces in city centres post-pandemic in South Korea and the UK, 4) jointly develop a new interdisciplinary network of researchers and a wider international network of practitioners focused on establishing a future research agenda on city centre transformation post-pandemic. Drawing on a range of disciplinary and contextual knowledge we will seek to understand the challenges facing city centres as well as identify solutions. This project will achieve this by bringing together expertise across a range of disciplines relating to the built environment, including urban planning, real estate, economics, geography, and urban design.

越来越多的人担心，在英国和韩国，市中心的零售空间正在变得过时。研究表明，发达经济体的许多城市零售空间过大，零售商需求不足。这导致零售业空置率居高不下，特别是在近年来难以吸引足够游客以保持经济可持续性的市中心。电子商务及网上购物的增长在COVID-19疫情期间进一步加速，减少了购物者前往实体零售中心的需求。疫情前的数据显示，韩国及英国分别有24%及19%的零售销售总额是在网上进行（第一太平戴维斯，2020年），这表明零售空间过剩的问题可能会变得更糟。英国政府最近发布了一份题为“重建更好的高街”的政策文件（2021年7月15日），阐述了政府对高街未来的愿景。此前，一项对英国商业街的独立调查得出结论，“商业街已经达到了危机点”（Portas，2011）。同样，韩国中央政府于2017年推出城市再生新政项目，以振兴衰落的城市中心，随后于2021年推出绿色新政项目，以应对COVID-19疫情的影响。尽管这两个国家都做出了这些努力，但关键问题仍然没有得到回答：这些重要的城市中心空间应该如何重新利用？城市规划师和设计师在重新利用这些空间中扮演什么角色？地方社区应如何参与城市中心的改造？零售业再利用项目应该如何融资？城市中心空置和冗余零售空间的加速趋势意味着，迫切需要探索城市中心零售空间的再利用。重新定位是后疫情时代重新塑造、重新设计和重建城市中心的关键手段。因此，此次合作旨在分享英国和韩国城市中心零售空间规划和再生的实践和研究知识和经验，以确定当前和未来的挑战并制定解决方案。通过一系列研讨会、实地考察和合作，我们将进一步了解城市中心在后疫情时代不断演变的角色。我们会探索创意的方法，创造以活动为本的社区聚会场所，让零售成为更多元化和可持续的商业和休闲用途组合的一小部分，并将绿色空间、休闲、艺术和文化、健康和社会护理服务与住房结合起来，创造一个以社交和社区互动为基础的空间。具体而言，拟议活动的目标是：1）分享英国和韩国在城市中心规划和再生零售空间方面的跨学科专业知识，2）评估目前在韩国和英国重新开发空置零售中心的努力，并考虑政策，设计和文化转移的适用性，3）确定未来的挑战，机遇，4）共同建立新的跨学科研究人员网络和更广泛的国际从业人员网络，重点是建立疫情后城市中心转型的未来研究议程。利用一系列学科和背景知识，我们将寻求了解城市中心面临的挑战并找到解决方案。该项目将通过汇集与建筑环境相关的一系列学科的专业知识来实现这一目标，包括城市规划，真实的房地产，经济学，地理学和城市设计。