Introduction: The Urban Retail Predicament
Conrad Kickert and Emily Talen
Retail Trends and Transformations
The Life and Death of Retail: Insights from Firm Demography
Luc Anselin and Irene Farah
The Ups and Downs of Retail, 2000–2015
Kevin Credit, Irene Farah, and Luc Anselin
Commercial Gentrification: What Happens to Businesses and Services when the Neighborhood Changes?
Rachel Meltzer
The Case of E-Commerce
Bricks and Clicks
Liz Mack
The Changing Demand for Urban Retail Space: Evidence from Canada
Christopher Daniel and Tony Hernandez
Online Sales and the British Urban Retail Hierarchy
Colin Jones
The Survival of Mom-and-Pops
Small Business Survival: How and Why?
Vikas Mehta
Can Mom and Pop Stores Survive? A Survey of Small Retailers in Chicago
Emily Talen
What’s in a Chain?: On Hipness, Corporate Stores, and False Dichotomies in Urban Life
Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker
Retail, Place, and Place-Making
Retail Scenes
Hyesun Jeong and Terry Clark
Main Street Morphology, Adaptability, and Resilience
Rosa Danenberg
Retail in the Mix
Matthew Carmona
Toward Solutions
Curating Main Streets: The Factors of Success
Michael W. Mehaffy and Tigran Haas
The Spatial Logic of Urban Retail
Conrad Kickert
The Future of American Urban Retail Real Estate
Heather Arnold
Conclusion: Urban Retail Redefined
Conrad Kickert and Emily Talen