The objective of the study was to evaluate the impact of shopping mall developments on consumer behaviour in township areas. Local and international research indicated that shopping mall developments in low-income communities result in several benefits for consumers, such as convenient location; a larger variety of goods offered, lower prices than small retailers in the area and better quality of goods, amongst others. Studies also indicated that the choice of the preferred supermarket/shopping mall is not a rational decision based only on pricing, but on a compromise of satisfying economic, social and psychological needs. A two part mixed methodology, which employed both qualitative and quantitative methods, was adopted. This included semi-structured interviews with retail experts and interview-administered questionnaires with the primary retail shopper in the household. The sample population was Alexandra Township in Gauteng, South Africa. Findings revealed that low-income consumers prefer to shop from the closest shopping mall instead of small retailers/Spaza Shops because of the lower prices and a larger variety of goods offered. However, evidence suggested that consumers prefer to shop at a shopping mall that represents their desired lifestyle, therefore shopping mall developments in township areas, do not fulfil the social and aspirational needs of low-income consumers. For this reason, low-income consumers continue to purchase from malls in urban areas.</pCopyright / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / MBA / unrestricted

The study describes design of completed store called " Centrum" in the center of Brno. The study is to design new functional use of the building and a new , contemporary building envelope solutions . Concept of territory is located in the historical center of Brno, Brno- center . The area consists of the original concept of the central city. Buildings with dominant feature of the area of housing and for administration, public facilities and commercial activities . The department store is located between the streets and Jánská Kobližná , close Malinovského square and is shaped as an isosceles trapezoid of parallel sides measuring 23.8 and 12.2 m and a length of 42.2 m Number of floors increase from the original eight floors to thirteen. Novadays, the existing building is used as a trading house , newly designed functional use of a shopping arcade (in the current portion ) of leasable space for offices and housing units ( in the proposed completion ) . In the stalls and streets Jánská Kobližná are situated trading units accessible from a four-storey shopping mall , which house fulfills the growing demand for retail space in the center of Brno . Above the shopping galleries are four separate functional administrative units with a separate entrance from the street Kobližná that are partially recessive separated floor where the observation restaurant . Last four floors contain extra housing units.

Two entities, town and university, each playing different functional roles, different in scale and structure, come together at one point. The architecture of that point is a transitional condition. Each element has integrity on its own, and at the same time is a part of the system. The primary requirement for the architecture of this place is to be elegant and thoughtful. This idea is addressed in five scales within the project: the axis, the street, the paths, the wall, and the room. / Master of Architecture

Original project of Skärholmen was composed of a system of public spaces, but this was `broken´  by the closure of the connection between the two squares in 1986. Street between shopping buildings became part of the shoping mall. The current situation is dominated by the activity of consumption, and Storholmsgatan is characterized by an atmosphere of anxiety and constant over-stimutation. The project aims to think through what form of ´restoration´ of this system of public spaces could take. How can we work with quite constrained, long, linear spaces as site for architecture? What is the role of rhythm in producing experience? A theme for design is to produce spacial hierarchy and make  a contemporary variation on modernism’s approach of the funcional color in design process.

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I Sverige och andra länder i världen är det vanligt att man bygger miljöklassade byggnader. Miljöklassade byggnader har idag stor efterfrågan och det finns olika miljöcertifieringssystem som kan användas vid både nybyggnationer och ROT-arbeten. Effektiviseringar i miljöarbete och energifrågor kring byggen är ämnen som miljöcertifieringarna behandlar, därför är det vanligt att dessa frågor och effektiviseringar i miljöarbete även tillämpas på befintliga byggnader för att nå en miljöklassificering. LEED är ett amerikanskt bedömningssystem som är ett av det mest kända miljöcertifieringssystemet i världen och systemet används även i Sverige. Det sätts press på projekteringsgruppen och personerna inom produktionen vid arbete med LEED. För att allt ska fungera enligt LEEDs krav blir det extra viktigt att alla inom bygget har kunskap om vad som krävs av varje enskild person som är involverad i bygget. Hur ska kunskapen kring arbete med LEED kunna förbättras och produktionen effektiviseras? I examensarbetet föreslås att detta ska ske med hjälp av en mall, kallad "Mallen". Mallen ska finnas till hands för alla inom produktionen som i sin tur ska ge ett resultat där kunskapen inom företaget ökar kring LEED men även effektivisera arbetet i samband med att kunskapen ökar. När både kunskapen och effektiviseringen ökat samt visat goda resultat bör en sänkning av inom kostnaden ske. / In Sweden and other countries in the world, it’s common that you build green certified buildings. There’s a great demand for Green buildings and there are different kinds of green building certification systems that can be used in both new construction and repair jobs. Efficiency and energy issues surrounding the building are topics that green building certifications treat, because it is common that these issues and improvements also is applied to existing buildings in order to reach an green building classification. LEED is an American classification system that is one of the most known systems in the world and it’s also used in Sweden. In order to use LEED while constructing a building it puts a pressure on the planning group and even for the people in construction. To make everything work according to the LEED requirements, it will be extra important that everyone within the building process should have knowledge of what is required from each person involved in the construction. How should the knowledge increase and construction efficiency improve? We propose it can be done by using a template which is also called "Mallen". This will be available for all involved in the production process and will result in an increased knowledge about LEED within the company. By that the efficiency of the work increases. When both knowledge and efficiency have increased and shown good results it should then also reduce the costs.

"Straight out the Gait: The Writing Process of Mallwalkers" documents the writing process of Mallwalkers, a feature-length comedy script about competitive mall walking. The report connects the writer's personal life to the process of writing three drafts of the film. / text

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