The concept of resilience has gained much attention in recent academic and political discussion. However, its application to specific sectors, such as retail, is rather scarce. The aim of this paper is to present the concept of resilience and to analyse its applicability to the retail sector within the context of the town centre. The paper proposes a possible analytical framework for adaptively resilient retail centres that links the performance of retail centres to underlying development paths, the pre-shock position in the adaptive cycle, and other factors that drive their evolutionary reorganisation. The proposed framework has a practical application for spatial and urban planning and can be beneficial to various stakeholders and practitioners, including retailers, policy makers, and town centre managers.
The main purpose of the paper is to recognise the impact of statutory Sunday trading restrictions on consumer behaviours (shopping time) and mobility (activeness, motivation, modal division) of residents in Łódź, one of the largest Polish cities. An additional aim is to determine the independence of the indicated elements for selected features of the surveyed residents and their households, for which purpose a two-stage questionnaire survey was conducted among the residents/dwellers of Łódź. The first stage was performed during a week following a non-trading Sunday, and the respondents were asked to refer specifically to the previous Sunday. The second phase was carried out during a week immediately following a trading Sunday, with the questions focused on that particular Sunday. The returned results showed that the main factor determining the time when people do their shopping to make up for a non-trading Sunday is their professional Sunday activity. The answers also revealed that the residents of Łódź chose an inactive and rather a “couch-potato” lifestyle on the analysed Sundays, whether trading or non-trading.
Powiązania społeczno-gospodarcze regionów przygranicznych stanowią przedmiot rozważań wielu autorów w polskiej i zagranicznej literaturze przedmiotu. Przyjmuje się, że są one niezwykle powszechne na pograniczu polsko-niemieckim. Ich szczególne uwarunkowanie stanowi rynek wewnętrzny Unii Europejskiej. Nie znajduje on jednak wyraźnego odzwierciedlenia w rozważaniach prowadzonych nad problematyką regionów przygranicznych na gruncie szeroko rozumianych studiów regionalnych. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie powiązań społeczno-gospodarczych polskich i niemieckich regionów przygranicznych w świetle ekonomii rynku wewnętrznego UE. Podstawową metodę badawczą wykorzystaną w pracy stanowi analiza literatury przedmiotu z zakresu regionów przygranicznych i współpracy transgranicznej oraz integracji rynkowej.