- Title
- Exploring CBD retail performance, recovery and resilience of a smart city following COVID-19
- Creator
- Fieger, Peter; Prayag, Girish; Dyason, David; Rice, John; Hall, C. Michael
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/195552
- Identifier
- vital:18540
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3390/su15108300
- Identifier
- ISSN:2071-1050
- Abstract
- The city of Christchurch, New Zealand, incurred significant damage due to a series of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. The city had, by the late 2010s, regained economic and social normalcy after a sustained period of rebuilding and economic recovery. Through the concerted rebuilding effort, a modern central business district (CBD) with redesigned infrastructure and amenities was developed. The Christchurch rebuild was underpinned by a commitment of urban planners to an open and connected city, including the use of innovative technologies to gather, use and share data. As was the case elsewhere, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about significant disruptions to social and economic life in Christchurch. Border closures, lockdowns, trading limitations and other restrictions on movement led to changes in traditional consumer behaviors and affected the retail sector’s resilience. In this study, we used CBD pedestrian traffic data gathered from various locations to predict changes in retail spending and identify recovery implications through the lens of retail resilience. We found that the COVID-19 pandemic and its related lockdowns have driven a substantive change in the behavioral patterns of city users. The implications for resilient retail, sustainable policy and further research are explored.
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Relation
- Sustainability Vol. 15, no. 10 (2023), p. 8300
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- Central business districts; Consumer behavior; COVID-19; Earthquake damage; Earthquakes; Economic aspects; Economic recovery; Economics and Business; Economy; Ekonomi; Ekonomi och näringsliv; Emergency preparedness; New Zealand; Pandemics; Pedestrian traffic; Rebuilding; Recovery; Resilience; Retail; Retail industry; Samhällsvetenskap; Seismic activity; Smart city; Social Sciences; Traffic information; Urban planning; MD Multidiscplinary
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