What does comfort mean for the future shopping center?: Revitalizing the Comfort of the Lijnbaan

This paper examines how comfort is experienced at Dutch post-war shopping centers by studying the behavior of users. Since the development of the first shopping center in the Netherlands, the Lijnbaan in Rotterdam, retail spaces served as public spaces for the neighborhood where community life could emerge. Throughout the years, new typologies...

The Elderly In a Post-War Shopping Mall: A study on the needs of the elderly in a neighbourhood shopping mall and the preservation of the neighbourhood shopping mall’s values

This research explores the evolving role of shopping malls in the lives of the growing elderly population in the Netherlands. Delving into the unique needs and desires of the elderly, the study emphasizes diversity, accessibility, community, and inclusivity within shopping centres. The research methodology integrates a comprehensive literature...

Perceptual Space in the New Era of Shopping Malls

With the rapid development of the Internet and the gradual penetration of online shopping into people's lives, COVID has accelerated the popularity of online shopping. People have found that it is convenient and varied, and traditional shopping centres are facing the impact of these e-commerce companies. This study explores the characteristics...

Energy transition in the retail sector: Revealing decision-making behaviours for Energy Efficiency Retrofits (EER) of shopping centres

Despite the efforts made in the World and the Netherlands for the energy transition of the building stock, policies and research have been mainly focusing on housing, leaving the non-residential building stock lacking in keeping up an adequate pace and in need of additional efforts to catalyse its transition. The retail sector represents the...

A Health and Wellness Centre for the city of Nijmegen: A place for escape in Nijmegen’s city centre

This thesis aims to develop a new urban and architectural condition for the site of the existing Molenpoort shopping centre, within Nijmegen’s city centre. The project aims to investigate how play can be considered as part of urban and architectural design in an attempt to make a healthier and more engaging city to live in.

Rediscovering the shopping centre: Historical analysis of the shopping centre typology and its succes in the Netherlands 1950 - 1975

The ‘shopping centre’ undergoes significant changes due to new social demands and requirements of people. Where large American shopping malls face a consumerist crisis, neighbourhood shopping centres are on the rise in the Netherlands. A combination of complex urban planning concepts, and key building characteristic such as the ‘human scale’, ...

Future proof neighborhood shopping centres in an aging population: A quantitative case study research on shopping preferences of elderly people in a Dutch aging neighborhood.

It is the year 2019 and the Dutch economy is flourishing. However, the retail sector is still in a ‘re- inventing phase’. The popularity of e-commerce is increasing and Dutch shopping districts are continuously changing. This affects the profitability of both retailers and retail investors. Considering that the Dutch population is aging, people...

The suburban commons

In European suburban areas, shopping centres are the main attractor, socially and commercially. Overcoming the scale of small town centres and providing a common regional place, these world interiors of capital are building a new territorial identity.<br/>Nevertheless, today online shopping is denaturating shopping centres, turning them into...

De samenwerking tussen winkeliers en het centrummanagement bij winkelcentra

Overall the retailers and centre management are not convinced to cooperate with each other. The basic condition for cooperation is insight in the surplus value of the cooperation and when applicable for retailers, the permission of the head office. It depends on the kind of cooperation if these aspects are present. The evaluation of the attached...

The Best Choice: Translating consumers’ choices for inner city shopping centres

The master thesis goes into measuring real life choice consumers make when choosing an inner city shopping centre. The preferences of over 600 consumers in The Netherlands and Germany have been measured using a discrete choice method. To improve the knowledge within the research method used, two different layouts were used to measure consumers'...