1 Introduction Daniel Paiva, Pedro Guimarães PART 1. NEW READINGS ON CONTEMPORARY RETAIL LANDSCAPES. 2 The Recent Transformation of Central Squares: On the interrelation between retail, recreation and mobility Mattias Kärrholm 3 Towards a research agenda for high street atmospheres Chloe Steadman 4 Eventification and Urban Branding Waldemar Cudny 5 Reinventing Shanghai''s Shopping Centres in the Post-Covid Digital Era: A Tale of Creative Destruction Fujie Rao, Weiting Qin, Yiwen Liu 6 Consuming heritage'' in Tianjin''s former international concessions: Leisure, tourism, and experiential shopping, between the local and the global Maria GravariBarbas, Chensi Shen, Yue Lu, Sandra Guinand 7 Retail Ruins, Revisited Jacob C. Miller 8 Key actors and factors in the evolution and diversification of shopping malls in Mexico City José Gasca Zamora 9 The production of space and sociospatial fragmentation of consumption places Cláudio Smalley Soares Pereira PART 2. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CHANGING CONSUMPTION PRACTICES. 10 Urban consumption, inequality and social conflict Daniel Paiva 11 Retail, consumption, and gender Liliana de Simone 12 Ethnic Retail Clusters in Helsinki: From Ethnification of Poverty to Socio-Economic Resilience Hossam Hewidy, Johanna Lilius 13 Beyond Bricks and Mortar: The Evolving Neighbourhood Commercial Landscape in Toronto Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang 14 Consuming an Urban Experience - Contemporary Applications of Pedestrianization and Public Space Kelly Gregg 15 Consumption and urban emotions in a changing climate Marcia Alves Soares da Silva, Diogo Marcelo Delben Ferreira de Lima 16 From No-Go to Must-See: Squatting, Touristification, and Fragile Atmospheres in Ljubljana Sandi Abram, Nathan Siegrist 17 Indulgent sounds. Listening to sonic strategies to foster consumption within entertainment neighborhoods Nicola Di Croce 18 Commensality, consumption and conviviality: Foodification and urban transformation in Funchal Carlos Diogo Gomes PART 3. THE DIGITALIZATION OF URBAN RETAIL AND CONSUMPTION.
19 Digital platforms and retail digitalization Sina Hardaker, Han Chu 20 The impact of prosumers on the platform economy Daniela Ferreira 21 Transformations in retail in the Digital Age: Dark Stores, Brick-and-Mortar Retailers, and Emerging Logistics Dynamic Pedro Guimarães, Nuno Rodrigues 22 Brick-and-mortar and e-commerce: places, links, and consumer perspectives Julie Horáková, Outi Uusitalo 23 Perception and consumption of extended reality (XR) content in urban spaces Maciej Glówczyoski 24 Consuming Place through Location-Based Games Jack Lowe 25 Phygitalisation: The New Frontier of Neighbourhood Retail in the Omnichannel Era Herculano Cachinho PART 4. THE GOVERNANCE OF URBAN CONSUMPTION SPACES. 26 Retailing and Place Management Gary Warnaby, Steve Millington 27 Retail Policies in Southern European Context Libera D''Alessandro, Rosario Sommella 28 Leaving the city, embracing the nation-state: Rethinking ''urban'' policy mobilities through the example of business improvement districts Diogo Gaspar Silva, Kevin Ward 29 Food Retailing and Consumption in Urban Areas Leigh Sparks 30 Retail capital and urban tourism consumption in Mexico Patricia Olivera 31 Superblock Barcelona: implications for the city retail structure Lluís Frago, Alejandro Morcuende 32 Complexity in Governance of Commercial City Centres Göktug Morçöl, Michele Tantardini, Arifur Rahman Bhuiyan 33 Afterword: The Death of the Urban Marketplace? Sharon Zukin 34 Afterword Teresa Barata-Salgueiro Index.