Related Links
Statistics
| Number of Journals | 32 |
| Number of Issues | 554 |
| Number of Articles | 5,380 |
| Article View | 8,161,418 |
| PDF Download | 6,064,433 |
Assessing the role of malls and commercial centers for changing urban regions in terms of consumerism: A case study on Tabriz Metropolis | ||
| مطالعات ساختار و کارکرد شهری | ||
| Volume 8, Issue 29, December 2021, Pages 70-96 PDF (856.01 K) | ||
| Document Type: Independent Research Articles | ||
| DOI: 10.22080/usfs.2021.3447 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Masoud Hasan Nejad Amjadi1; Mohammadreza Pourmohammadi* 2; Nader zali3 | ||
| 1PhD Student of Geography and Urban Planning, Marand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marand, Iran | ||
| 2Prof. of Geography and Urban Planning, faculty of Geography and Planning, University of Tabriz, Iran | ||
| 3Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Architecture, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran | ||
| Receive Date: 02 November 2021, Accept Date: 02 November 2021 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Trade centers in different countries have been formed according to the needs of the industrial market since the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, when mass production caused creating goods. Over time, a large area of urban lands was allocated to commercial uses and its physical appearance in the form of shops, bazaars, passages, new commercial centers and malls. In addition, these centers have been considered as one of the main reasons for changing and improving urban spaces. Therefore, with the development of urban economy, malls have had a significant impact on the production of new urban spaces and change and improvement of surrounding urban spaces. In this regard, commercial centers and malls like other phenomena have positive and negative effects. However, the negative effects of the commercial centers changes the role of urban consumerism. Hence, in this paper, the impacts of commercial centers and malls have been assessed on the consumption of Tabriz Metropolis. This practical research uses a descriptive-analytical approach and a quantitative method. The statistical populations of this study are customers of Setare Baran, Royal, Laleh Park, Atlas and Palladium Rushdie Malls. The sample size was selected based on Cochran's formula among 400 interviewee randomly. In addition, cultural, social, economic, physical and environmental indicators have been used in analyzing this issue in Stata Software. Moreover, Structural Equation Model (SEM) has been applied for analyzing the data and overall reliability of the questionnaire was obtained to be 0.754. The findings indicate that commercial centers and malls are effective in urban consumption, and these impacts encompass social, economic, physical and environmental dimensions | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Malls; Consumerism; Structural Equation Model (SEM); Tabriz Metropolitan | ||
| References | ||
|
| ||
|
Statistics Article View: 1,119 PDF Download: 690 |
||