Der Einzelhandel im Stadtzentrum Florenz zwischen touristischem Druck und ausländischer Unternehmerschaft

The study describes the consequences of demographic and functional decline and of touristic pressure on retail structures of the ancient city centre of Florence. It stresses the ongoing assimilation of retail landscape as consequence of touristic demand and of substitution of old historical shops by...

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Main Author: Mirella Loda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2006-06-01
Series:Belgeo
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/11101
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description The study describes the consequences of demographic and functional decline and of touristic pressure on retail structures of the ancient city centre of Florence. It stresses the ongoing assimilation of retail landscape as consequence of touristic demand and of substitution of old historical shops by international chains. This process threatens in the long run the specific identity of the city and thus risks to diminish its touristic attraction. Moreover the article discusses the possibilities to reduce this risk of losing local identity by developing the potentiality of new immigrant entrepreneurship in retail business. A new kind of public policy seems necessary in order to counterbalance the handicaps of immigrant entrepreneurs compared with Italians. It seems important to develop new policies which concentrate public resources specifically on some innovative categories of entrepreneurs among which the – compared to the Italians – younger and better educated foreign shop holders.
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Der Einzelhandel im Stadtzentrum Florenz zwischen touristischem Druck und ausländischer Unternehmerschaft
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title Der Einzelhandel im Stadtzentrum Florenz zwischen touristischem Druck und ausländischer Unternehmerschaft
title_full Der Einzelhandel im Stadtzentrum Florenz zwischen touristischem Druck und ausländischer Unternehmerschaft
title_fullStr Der Einzelhandel im Stadtzentrum Florenz zwischen touristischem Druck und ausländischer Unternehmerschaft
title_full_unstemmed Der Einzelhandel im Stadtzentrum Florenz zwischen touristischem Druck und ausländischer Unternehmerschaft
title_short Der Einzelhandel im Stadtzentrum Florenz zwischen touristischem Druck und ausländischer Unternehmerschaft
title_sort der einzelhandel im stadtzentrum florenz zwischen touristischem druck und auslandischer unternehmerschaft
topic retail business
Florence
url https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/11101
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