Allison Orr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison Orr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison |
| FAMILY NAME | Orr |
| SIGNATURE | ORR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heriot-Watt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0452-2159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Repurposing retail space
The retail sector is experiencing unprecedented change, from ongoing shifts in shopping behaviour to retailer rationalisation and business failure. Internationally, this is impacting the crucial economic and social role of many highly developed city centres. This paper examines how key stakeholders have responded to the challenges of adapting city centres for the future. Empirically, the paper draws on a series of repurposing schemes across five …
Ownership diversity and fragmentation
Fragmentation of ownership has long been a recognised constraint to UK city centre development, a complexity that is growing in significance as centres try to manage the decline in physical retailing and transform obsolete retail units. Yet, our understanding of the structure of ownership and how that might be facilitating or inhibiting urban change remains weak. In this paper, the objective is to address this gap by examining the structure and d…
Not quite the ‘death of the high street’ in UK city centres
This paper explores the inter-connections between property use diversity, change of use, and the adaptive capacity within urban retailing systems. The retailing centres of five UK case study cities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, and Nottingham, are examined over a twenty-year period using original databases on property use and geospatial mapping techniques to employ property use richness and diversity metrics in a novel manner. Overall, th…
The experience economy in UK city centres
Since the 1990s the UK’s city centre high streets have been losing market share to out-of-town shopping and e-retailing. The shocks of the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 have hastened this and precipitated widespread store closures. The experience economy is increasingly promoted as a means to avert the ‘death of the high street’, and this prompts our study of its evolution. An exploration of the literature reveals the experience economy to…
Averting dead mall syndrome
As consumer habits evolve the role of purpose-built shopping centers is being severely tested. The phrase “dead mall syndrome” is now frequently used in North America and parts of Europe to describe shopping centers facing obsolescence. In this paper, we make purpose-built shopping centers in large UK cities our focus and consider the extent to which “dead mall syndrome” and “de-malling” are occurring on the UK’s city center high streets. Using a…
The revaluation of council tax bands
English The article contributes to debate on the future of the council tax by focusing on the revaluation of council tax bands. Originally, no revaluations were foreseen and as yet none has occurred in Britain. The article argues there is a strong equity argument for frequent revaluations. An assessment of the potential impact of a revaluation is undertaken for a sample area of 11 local authority areas in Scotland. This research finds that, while…
Spatial Economic Change and Long-term Urban Office Rental Trends
Jones C. and Orr A. M. (2004) Spatial economic change and long-term urban office rental trends, Reg. Studies38, 281-292. The paper starts with the presumption that spatial economic change will have a strong influence on local long-term office rental trends. A number of hypotheses are developed which draw together the interaction between the office property market and these spatial economic forces, differentiating in particular by urban size and g…
The Analysis and Prediction of Urban Office Rents
The focus of this paper is the analysis and prediction of local office rents and in particular the development of econometric models for two UK cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow. This paper reviews the current state of modelling and forecasting for office markets and notes the sparsity of urban office rent models. The urban models that exist suffer from data problems and either make the fatal flaw of ignoring supply constraints or consider supply in …
Understanding Property Market Dynamics
The volatility of commercial property markets in the United Kingdom has stimulated the development of explanatory models of 'price' determination. These models have tended to focus on the demand-side as the driver of change. A corollary of this is that, despite the fact that construction lags are known to exacerbate cyclical fluctuations, the supply-side adjustment mechanism has been subject to relatively little research effort. In this paper the…
Local Commercial and Industrial Rental Trends and Property Market Constraints
The paper assesses the differential impact of property market constraints on the long-run rental trends in each of the commercial and industrial property market sectors. The perceived view that supply constraints are very inelastic in the retail sector, less so for offices and elastic for industrial properties is reconsidered. A series of hypotheses are derived and tested by an analysis of variance technique which decomposes rental change into lo…
Local Commercial and Industrial Rental Trends and Property Market Constraints
The paper assesses the differential impact of property market constraints on the long-run rental trends in each of the commercial and industrial property market sectors. The perceived view that supply constraints are very inelastic in the retail sector, less so for offices and elastic for industrial properties is reconsidered. A series of hypotheses are derived and tested by an analysis of variance technique which decomposes rental change into lo…
Averting dead mall syndrome
As consumer habits evolve the role of purpose-built shopping centers is being severely tested. The phrase “dead mall syndrome” is now frequently used in North America and parts of Europe to describe shopping centers facing obsolescence. In this paper, we make purpose-built shopping centers in large UK cities our focus and consider the extent to which “dead mall syndrome” and “de-malling” are occurring on the UK’s city center high streets. Using a…
Understanding Property Market Dynamics
The volatility of commercial property markets in the United Kingdom has stimulated the development of explanatory models of 'price' determination. These models have tended to focus on the demand-side as the driver of change. A corollary of this is that, despite the fact that construction lags are known to exacerbate cyclical fluctuations, the supply-side adjustment mechanism has been subject to relatively little research effort. In this paper the…
The revaluation of council tax bands
English The article contributes to debate on the future of the council tax by focusing on the revaluation of council tax bands. Originally, no revaluations were foreseen and as yet none has occurred in Britain. The article argues there is a strong equity argument for frequent revaluations. An assessment of the potential impact of a revaluation is undertaken for a sample area of 11 local authority areas in Scotland. This research finds that, while…
Repurposing retail space
The retail sector is experiencing unprecedented change, from ongoing shifts in shopping behaviour to retailer rationalisation and business failure. Internationally, this is impacting the crucial economic and social role of many highly developed city centres. This paper examines how key stakeholders have responded to the challenges of adapting city centres for the future. Empirically, the paper draws on a series of repurposing schemes across five …
Not quite the ‘death of the high street’ in UK city centres
This paper explores the inter-connections between property use diversity, change of use, and the adaptive capacity within urban retailing systems. The retailing centres of five UK case study cities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, and Nottingham, are examined over a twenty-year period using original databases on property use and geospatial mapping techniques to employ property use richness and diversity metrics in a novel manner. Overall, th…
The experience economy in UK city centres
Since the 1990s the UK’s city centre high streets have been losing market share to out-of-town shopping and e-retailing. The shocks of the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 have hastened this and precipitated widespread store closures. The experience economy is increasingly promoted as a means to avert the ‘death of the high street’, and this prompts our study of its evolution. An exploration of the literature reveals the experience economy to…
The Analysis and Prediction of Urban Office Rents
The focus of this paper is the analysis and prediction of local office rents and in particular the development of econometric models for two UK cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow. This paper reviews the current state of modelling and forecasting for office markets and notes the sparsity of urban office rent models. The urban models that exist suffer from data problems and either make the fatal flaw of ignoring supply constraints or consider supply in …
Local Commercial and Industrial Rental Trends and Property Market Constraints
The paper assesses the differential impact of property market constraints on the long-run rental trends in each of the commercial and industrial property market sectors. The perceived view that supply constraints are very inelastic in the retail sector, less so for offices and elastic for industrial properties is reconsidered. A series of hypotheses are derived and tested by an analysis of variance technique which decomposes rental change into lo…
Understanding Property Market Dynamics
The volatility of commercial property markets in the United Kingdom has stimulated the development of explanatory models of 'price' determination. These models have tended to focus on the demand-side as the driver of change. A corollary of this is that, despite the fact that construction lags are known to exacerbate cyclical fluctuations, the supply-side adjustment mechanism has been subject to relatively little research effort. In this paper the…
The Analysis and Prediction of Urban Office Rents
The focus of this paper is the analysis and prediction of local office rents and in particular the development of econometric models for two UK cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow. This paper reviews the current state of modelling and forecasting for office markets and notes the sparsity of urban office rent models. The urban models that exist suffer from data problems and either make the fatal flaw of ignoring supply constraints or consider supply in …
Spatial Economic Change and Long-term Urban Office Rental Trends
Jones C. and Orr A. M. (2004) Spatial economic change and long-term urban office rental trends, Reg. Studies38, 281-292. The paper starts with the presumption that spatial economic change will have a strong influence on local long-term office rental trends. A number of hypotheses are developed which draw together the interaction between the office property market and these spatial economic forces, differentiating in particular by urban size and g…
The revaluation of council tax bands
English The article contributes to debate on the future of the council tax by focusing on the revaluation of council tax bands. Originally, no revaluations were foreseen and as yet none has occurred in Britain. The article argues there is a strong equity argument for frequent revaluations. An assessment of the potential impact of a revaluation is undertaken for a sample area of 11 local authority areas in Scotland. This research finds that, while…
Ownership diversity and fragmentation
Fragmentation of ownership has long been a recognised constraint to UK city centre development, a complexity that is growing in significance as centres try to manage the decline in physical retailing and transform obsolete retail units. Yet, our understanding of the structure of ownership and how that might be facilitating or inhibiting urban change remains weak. In this paper, the objective is to address this gap by examining the structure and d…
Not quite the ‘death of the high street’ in UK city centres
This paper explores the inter-connections between property use diversity, change of use, and the adaptive capacity within urban retailing systems. The retailing centres of five UK case study cities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, and Nottingham, are examined over a twenty-year period using original databases on property use and geospatial mapping techniques to employ property use richness and diversity metrics in a novel manner. Overall, th…
The experience economy in UK city centres
Since the 1990s the UK’s city centre high streets have been losing market share to out-of-town shopping and e-retailing. The shocks of the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 have hastened this and precipitated widespread store closures. The experience economy is increasingly promoted as a means to avert the ‘death of the high street’, and this prompts our study of its evolution. An exploration of the literature reveals the experience economy to…
Averting dead mall syndrome
As consumer habits evolve the role of purpose-built shopping centers is being severely tested. The phrase “dead mall syndrome” is now frequently used in North America and parts of Europe to describe shopping centers facing obsolescence. In this paper, we make purpose-built shopping centers in large UK cities our focus and consider the extent to which “dead mall syndrome” and “de-malling” are occurring on the UK’s city center high streets. Using a…
Repurposing retail space
The retail sector is experiencing unprecedented change, from ongoing shifts in shopping behaviour to retailer rationalisation and business failure. Internationally, this is impacting the crucial economic and social role of many highly developed city centres. This paper examines how key stakeholders have responded to the challenges of adapting city centres for the future. Empirically, the paper draws on a series of repurposing schemes across five …
Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Housing Market and Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Consumer Retail Behavior Studies (3 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Marketing (3 works)