Re-use of Closed Big Retail Facilities for the Revitalization of Local City Centers

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  • Nakahara Shinichiro
    Department of Urban Design, Planning and Disaster Management, Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University
  • Yasuyama Noriyuki
    Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University
  • Deguchi Atsushi
    Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University

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  • 街なか再生のための大型店再生に関する研究
  • マチナカサイセイ ノ タメ ノ オオガタテン サイセイ ニ カンスル ケンキュウ

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This study aims to research on the factors to re-use the closed large-scale retail stores located in the local city centers for revitalization of the areas by reviewing the economical and social backgrounds and impacts of recent trend on closing of these retail stores. In general, it is clarified that comparatively many of the middle-size cities are confronted with the severe problems of closing the big retail stores. Through the analysis on the curtent trend on the solution for re-use of the closed or bankrupted retail shops by municipalities, this study points out the importance of the method for consideration on the needs of the local community by citizen participation. In the case study on Kurume City, it points out the necessity of the partnership of the big retail stores and the local commercial community for revitalizing the declined city centers.

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  • 都市・建築学研究

    都市・建築学研究 6 31-36, 2004-07-15

    Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University

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