Don’t think we get rid of the shopping centres – NRK

on Monday, told NRK about the author Ronny Spaans, who in a new book is handing out grades to the Norwegian cities and towns, and provides several of them outright slaughter.

With the book want Spaans to examine that more and more of the traditional street life passed into the malls.

Experts NRK have talked with, think, however, the trend difficult to stop.

– Can learn from the shopping centres

HANDLINGSVEGRING: master of comparative politics Karl-Fredrik Tangen think a lot of people are skeptical of shopping malls, but still shop there.

Photo: College Kristiania (oslo)

master of comparative politics and lecturer, Karl-Fredrik Tangen in Oslo Markedshøyskole think it is difficult to turn around the development without political intervention.

– This is something that must be determined politically and comprehensive across of the ideology of market freedom. It’s not like consumers are going to influence in the direction of the away from the malls, ” says Tangen.

He fears that the battle for economic activity between the municipalities makes it difficult for the community to say no to kjøpesenterbygging.

– Is the desire to remove the shopping malls just pure nostalgia?

– No, it is a real and understandable desire that may form the basis for stronger political steering of urban development. It is timely and nice that the ripple effects of shopping malls appear. The big question is: What to do with it?

the Pliers think many are wary of the markets, but that they do not put thought to action.

Many would probably like to see a richer variety of small shops in the sentrumsgater, but in the concrete beslutningsøyeblikk coves, the idealistic side, and people end up with to run on the mall, ” he says.

Tangen believes that urban settlements can learn from how department stores think.

– They can subsidise the rent to the Sales and Hennes & Mauritz that draws customers, then comes the Cubus, Nille and the Kiwi tail wagging.

Think development can be stopped

CRITICAL: Professor Per Gunnar Røe think it is problematic that the semi-public rooms like malls takes on the role of meeting place.

Photo: Aina Rødal / NRK

Professor Per Gunnar Røe, Department of sociology and samfunnsgeografi at the University of Oslo is critical that the shopping centres in the increasingly occupies the role of the public meeting.

– They are meeting places, but at the same time not actually public space: It is a part of activities that are not allowed that would be allowed on the streets and squares, such as begging. Thus, it is halvprivate rooms, says Røe.

Between 1999 and 2004, the enforced government kjøpesenterstopp in Norway, i.e. a prohibition against the establishment of shopping centres outside central parts of cities and towns.

But in 2017 we have Norway the highest number of square meters of shopping mall per capita.

Røe doubt that it is possible to reverse the trend and bring down the number of shopping malls, but nevertheless, believe you can stop the development if there is the political will to it.

But it is not easy, for it is obviously profitable to drive them, people think it is convenient and time-saving, and the municipalities fear handelslekkasjer if they can’t even offer them. It will require a very conscious strategic investment, says Røe.