This paper explores emerging spatial forms of shopping centres (evolved or planned agglomeration of shops). The twentieth century shopping centre development was largely towards car dependency, with the rise of the ‘suburban mall’ and ‘power centre’ (big box store cluster) and the decline of the ‘main street’. Retail landscape, however, increasingly forms synergies between these three retail types, giving rise to new shopping morphologies. These retail synergies are not well investigated in the existing research, with limited coverage of synergistic types and cities. In an attempt to address the research gaps, a morphological typology of shopping centres is conducted, using 100 cases of contemporary retail synergies from 55 cities with a broad global spread. A wide range of synergies between the main street, suburban mall, and power centre is identified: from simple combinations between any two types to highly experimental and complex assemblages comprising two or more synergies. These three retail types thus show a strong capacity for changes and adaptations, which may foster the resilience of shopping centres amid the recent mass-closing of brick-and-mortar shops; the ‘retail apocalypse’.

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转型中的购物中心形态：走向零售协同效应的形态类型

本文探讨了购物中心的新兴空间形式（进化的或计划的商店聚集）。随着“郊区购物中心”和“电力中心”（大型商店集群）的兴起以及“主要街道”的衰落，20 世纪购物中心的发展主要依赖汽车。然而，零售格局越来越多地在这三种零售类型之间形成协同效应，从而产生新的购物形态。这些零售协同效应在现有研究中没有得到很好的研究，协同类型和城市的覆盖范围有限。为了解决研究空白，使用来自全球 55 个城市的 100 个当代零售协同案例进行了购物中心的形态类型学。主要街道、郊区商场、确定了权力中心：从任何两种类型之间的简单组合到包含两种或多种协同作用的高度实验性和复杂的组合。因此，这三种零售类型显示出强大的变化和适应能力，这可能会在最近实体店大规模关闭的情况下增强购物中心的弹性；“零售启示录”。