Retailising Space: Architecture, Retail and the Territorialisation of Public Space

by Mattias Karrholm

Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new kinds of retail space, such as in libraries, workplaces, churches and museums. This book describes how the retailisation of public domains affects our everyday life and our use of the built environment. Taking an architectural and territorial perspective on this issue, it looks at how retail and consumption spaces have changed and territorialised urban life in different ways. It then develops a methodology and a set of concepts to describe and understand the role of architecture in these territorial transformations.

Genres: Nonfiction

176 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2012