The Wondrous Evoluscope: Consumption

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Sunday, May 9, 2010

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 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.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

The Character of Shopping Mall Design.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

the Vanishing Shopping Mall - Catalysts

Armed with this arsenal of weapons to withdraw us from our money shopping in America and Australia and indeed all over the world has recently seen a marked decrease. More Than 400 of the 2000 largest malls in America have closed over the past 2 years. Some 150 000 retailers are projected to fail in America this year and so mall foreclosures will be imminent. A mall or shopping centre represents discretionary spending and discretionary spending is in decline. Retail sales figures here in Australia are following the same patterns in America and the world. Retail expenditure here dropped significantly since the global financial crisis struck in 2009. Consumers are spending less and spending less often. As the over retailing of our urban environment continues those centres least able to offer consumer incentives through activity, form and environment are at risk.

Dead Malls

Super Popuar Culture on Consumption

Sunday, April 25, 2010

consumption behaviour

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Chadstone Shopping Centre

Victory Gardens

During the second world war as men were overseas fighting the production of food in countries such as America, Canada and Australia experienced food shortages. Governments adopted a media push urging housewives to grow their own vegetables as a means of supporting their dietary needs. Through a localisation of the food supply shortages of food were addressed. Called “Victory Gardens” the scheme worked very well until the return of the soldiers whereby food production returned to its pre war cycle.