Unravelling retail diversity through its spatial relationship with social vulnerability and tourism pressures in Barcelona

ABSTRACT

Diversity in retail and facilities is essential for creating proximity environments. Most analyses have focused on either built environment predictors or the balance between diversity and social vulnerability and tourism, but little is known of their interrelationship. Using georeferenced data of retail and facilities in Barcelona (Spain), the study shows that diversity is positively associated with compact and dense environments, but negatively related to social vulnerability and tourist accommodation. Five clusters were studied based on retail diversity, urban vulnerability, and tourist intensity. Some areas may be endangered by the overrepresentation of specific activities. These insights can inform activity diversification policies.

KEYWORDS:

• Urban diversity
• commercial network
• retail
• tourism
• Barcelona

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Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2023.2245761.

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This article was originally published with errors, which have now been corrected in the online version. Please see Correction (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2023.2257952)

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Funding

Irene Gómez-Varo received funding from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain under the grant ‘Formación de Profesorado Universitario’ [FPU18/02129]; Xavier Delclòs-Alió and Oriol Marquet received funding from the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain under a ‘Ramón y Cajal’ fellowship [RYC2021031672-I and RYC2020-029441-I, respectively]. The research presented in this paper has been possible thanks to financial support received under the Project MICROMOV PID2019-104344RB-I00 from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain, and the Project STEPP – Social Transport Equity by Planning for Proximity [SR22-00147] funded by the Social Observatory of La Caixa Foundation.