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Beggars as Rational Choosers

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shopping centers, sociabilidade e conflitos socioespaciais urbanos

open access: yesConfins, 2022
Shopping malls are important equipment that influence the redefinition of centralities and the spatial logic of sociability and contemporary urban conflicts.
João Victor Sanches Patrício   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socialisation, community, and shopping malls : an empirical study at Auckland's St. Lukes Mall : examining the role the mall plays for its patrons : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
With the steady growth in the number of shopping malls being constructed, and the high level of media attention they have been receiving, this exploratory study investigated the role shopping centres play for their patrons and conceptualized the findings
Farmer, Nathan Jerome
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Crime Prevention through Environmental Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter is concerned with the extent to which the individual design features of the built environment (such as a house, school, shopping mall or hospital), as well as the natural environment surrounding those buildings, impact upon crime risk ...
Armitage, Rachel
core   +1 more source

Resonance and Psychic Affirmation: A Comparison of Hartmut Rosa's and Daniel Haybron's Conceptions of Human Happiness

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper compares Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory of “the good life” and Daniel Haybron's psychic affirmation theory of “happiness,” which he differentiates, as a descriptive notion, from “well‐being” as an evaluative notion. Haybron suggests that a central determinant of happiness has to be the somewhat reliable occurrence of positive ...
Ole Höffken
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of Emotional Response and Aesthetic Perception of Shopping Mall Facade Color on Entry Decisions—Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Region of China

open access: yesBuildings
Color is one of the essential visual aesthetic design elements for shopping mall building facades, dramatically influencing customers’ aesthetic perceptions, emotions, and behavioral responses.
Zhenxing Zhu, Yiran Liu, Yuewu Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Marketplace icons: shopping malls [PDF]

open access: yesConsumption Markets & Culture, 2016
ABSTRACTThis article considers shopping malls as marketplace icons. We suggest that shopping malls can be regarded as a significant symbol of consumption in an age of late modernity, and highlight key aspects of their development. The role of the shopping mall as an agent of creative destruction, influencing the nature of the retail landscape ...
Gary Warnaby, Dominic Medway
openaire   +1 more source

PERILAKU KONSUMTIF DI KALANGAN MAHASISWA(Studi Mengenai Perilaku Konsumtif Di Kalangan Mahasiswa Di KotaMataram - NTB) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Rampant shopping mall is a new phenomenon that began popping up in various areas (including Lombok). At least for now there is one mall that Dapa is found in Lombok Mataram Mall has recently become the center spending in the local area.
Kusumayadi, Dody
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Carbon emissions of retail channels: the limits of available policy instruments to achieve absolute reductions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Buying the same product at the neighborhood store or at a shopping mall implies different carbon emissions. This paper quantifies carbon impacts of consumer choices of retail channel and shop location (where to buy), extending footprint assessments of ...
Bruckner, Martin   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Coming of age in‐ and out‐of‐place: frictions of adolescent mobility in island Southeast Asia Devenir adulte, à sa place ou non : frictions de la mobilité adolescente dans les îles d'Asie du Sud‐Est

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Through a comparison of adolescent experience in Manggarai, eastern Indonesia, and amongst children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia, this article argues for the value of attending to the spatiality of adolescence as a period of transition. Biocultural development expands both adolescents’ concrete experiences of mobility and their sense of the ...
Catherine Allerton
wiley   +1 more source

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