Dalhousie University.
Urban Stud. 2011;48(1):177-95. doi: 10.1177/0042098009360232.
Contemporary planners see mixing residential, retail and other compatible uses as an essential planning principle. This paper explores the challenges that planners, developers and municipal councillors encounter in trying to implement retail uses as part of the mix in suburban areas in three Canadian cities. The study finds that planners employ evolutionary theories of urban development to naturalise their normative visions of walkable and sociable communities. By contrast, developers point to consumer behaviour to explain why planners' ideas on mix do not work. In a society where people shop at big-box outlets, making the local café or pub commercially viable proves increasingly challenging.
当代规划者将住宅、零售和其他兼容用途的混合视为一项基本规划原则。本文探讨了规划者、开发商和市议员在试图将零售用途作为三个加拿大城市郊区混合用途的一部分实施时所遇到的挑战。研究发现，规划者采用城市发展的进化理论将他们对可步行和宜居社区的规范性愿景自然化。相比之下，开发商则指出消费者行为来解释为什么规划者的混合理念不起作用。在一个人们在大型购物中心购物的社会中，让当地的咖啡馆或酒吧具有商业可行性变得越来越具有挑战性。
