Sunday Market = Local

A survay of the Southbank Sunday Market revealed that traders had come from or inside the periphery of the city and the surrounding satelite cities.

Market = National

A survey of fruit and vegetable trader at Queen Victoria Market reveals a supply chain of produce grown locally and nationally.  Goods are transported via a truck.

Shopping Mall = Global

Shopping centres and traders in Melbourne sell goods that come from all over the world travelling vast distances. The environmental effects of this transportation of these goods could be cut if a more localised system of production is the result of a castestrophic global financial market meltdown.  In localising the production process transportation and energy needs are decreased.

Food Supply

Melbourne's CBD poulation has grown rapidly since the inception of the Melbourne 2030 development plan.  An increase in residential supply is set to continue into the future.  The Spencer street site has the potential to deliver food to 100 000 people within a nominal 1km walking distance zone.

Agindustrial

Australians Spend $100 dollars on groceries each year.  Out of all of Australias Land Mass only 10% is arable land of which, most is located on the peripery of urban areas, in areas such as Melbournes Green Wedges.  The developement of these Green Wedges continues against the recomendations of the Melbourne 2030 planning document.  As this   It is from here that most of Melbournes perishable vegetable supply is grown.

Site

Shopping Centres and Services

Research into Shopping Mall / Centre sustainability, as perviously diagrammed, shows that consumer occupancy and desire to purchase depends greatly on the Shopping Mall place and facilities.  Of note her is the lack of diversity and facility development of DFO Spencer Street.

Shopping and Residency

Melbourne 2030 urban planning has driven many new residential densification within the CBD.  With more people living in the city boudary access to facilities becomes vital.

Shopping in Melbourne

The space that dedicated shopping districts occupy in Melbourne can be deemed as extensive.

Shopping in Melbourne

Melbourne is known, in australia, as its shopping capital.  This diagram shows the main shopping areas only.  In reality consumption spaces are spread throughout the entire CBD and its periphery.

Globalisation/Regional - Mapping product type

https://qed.princeton.edu/main/MG

Melbourne Dominant Types - Shopping Centre/Mall

Melbourne is known as Australia’s shopping capital with a vast array of retail centres, outlets and spaces dedicated to our consumption of goods. The recent major building projects in the CBD, Docklands, South Wharf all have major centerpieces which are shopping centres and precincts, for example;

QVSouth Wharf

DFO Central Terminal

Crown Entertainment Complex

DFO SpencerHarbour Town

Melbourne Central

David Jones and Myer

The shopping centre or mega retail store has become the dominant type in the Melbourne urban landscape. With shopping and the accumulation and disposal of stuff becoming an ever increasing cultural norm, what place does shopping and stuff have in our future society and built environment?

Mapping Globalisation

With all the talk of globalization it is easy to forget that at the very core of the concept is a notion of geographical location. Globalization involves connections between at least two places and the first step in any understanding must be an appreciation of what this means in a concrete sense of space.
Mapping offers a possible solution to the dilemmas posed by the complexity of both network analysis and globalization. As part of the Mapping Globalization project, researchers from Princeton University and The University of Washington are accordingly assembling a collection of digital maps and links to maps.

More maps and research on globalisation:

https://qed.princeton.edu/main/MG

Mapping Globalisation

https://qed.princeton.edu/main/MG