Shopping Centre Development (RLE Retailing and Distribution) by Dawson John;Lord Dennis;

Author:Dawson, John;Lord, Dennis;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1039309
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Table 7.2: Average Number of Businesses per 10,000m2 of Shopping Centres

are not constrained within the residential framework with more than half the centres of this period being situated at major road junctions and being practically inaccessible on foot.

The Slowing of Growth: 1975–1982. As Table 7.1 shows, the slowing of growth was both sharp and uneven. From 1975, the remarkable growth of previous years collapsed. Only as many centres were opened by the end of 1977 as had been opened during the period from 1969 to 1971. Moreover they had comparable floorspaces, 22,800 sq. m against an average 22,200 sq. m from 1969 to 1971. This was noticeably smaller than during the “Golden Age”. The large stores took an increasing share of space while the role of the small shops was even further reduced (Table 7.2). Parisian shopping centres came to differ less and less from provincial ones. Parisian and provincial centres averaged 45 and 32 small shops respectively at this time. A few new centres belonged to the first generation, while the great majority were based on the second generation model anchored with a hypermarket, even the centres of 30,000 sq. m of which two were suburban. Only one, Galaxie, which was built as part of a restoration operation, is slightly reminiscent of Maine-Montparnasse, but lacks the advantage of a nearby railway station.

During this period of less activity, the planners introduced some innovations at Evry II (73,000 sq. m) in the centre of the new town of the same name locted in the prefecture of Essonne. The scheme exhibits a desire for integration which had not been in evidence a year previously for the new town of Créteil. Socio-cultural provision and commercial provision were linked and this ensured the integration of the scheme into its surroundings, so that it operates as much as a neighbourhood centre as a regional centre. This type of third generation centre is still rarely represented in 1983. Evry II was the first of a small group which includes La Part Dieu at Lyon and Grand Place at Grenoble, both dating from 1975. Similar in certain respects are the Parisian centres of the Forum des Halles (35,000 sq. m in 1979) and the Quatre Temps at La Defense which is the largest centre in Europe with 102,943 sq. m GLA. These are no longer exclusively retail complexes as they seek to respond to, and benefit from, the recreational and cultural needs of the urban environs in which they operate.

The dead period in the development of commercial centres was most noticeable after 1978 and the apparent improvement of 1981 and 1982 was quite limited (Table 7.1). The large commercial develoments at Forum des Halles and Quatre Temps at the centre of the two most prestigious restoration operations in the capital really owe their opening during the period only to the slow completion of programmes which were started long before. The distinguishing characteristics of this phase of slow down is the resumption of building within the existing and sometimes dense residential fabric.

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