Unraveling the Impact of Pandemic: Investigating COVID-19 Effects on Seoul’s Alley Market Districts through Sales Variance and Urban Decline Assessment
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Abstract
The global spread of COVID-19 and continuing emergence of mutated viruses have taken a direct economic toll on local alley market districts. However, the measurable economic impact of COVID-19 differs by market, depending on the characteristics of the local market district. Studies are required on market sales that reflect changes in people’s perceptions of the market’s surroundings and green spaces when considering unusual circumstance, such as a large-scale pandemic. This study aims to identify factors that influenced sales of the alley market districts in Seoul, South Korea before and during COVID-19, focusing on the perceived urban decline, index of greenness, and accessibility to parks and green spaces. A spatial regression analysis is conducted based on six factors affecting face-to-face businesses’ sales variance from 2017 to the third quarter of 2021. The findings show that perceived urban decline has a positive association with sales variance, while the index of greenness and park/green space accessibility have no statistically significant relationships with sales variance. The results suggest the need to apply the index of perceived urban decline when evaluating market revitalization according to the Regional Market Act in social disaster situations, and the need to improve market surroundings to implement the revitalization project.
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The journal has an applied focus: it actively promotes the importance of geographical research in real world settings
It is policy-relevant: it seeks both a readership and contributions from practitioners as well as academics
The substantive foundation is spatial analysis: the use of quantitative techniques to identify patterns and processes within geographic environments
The combination of these points, which are fully reflected in the naming of the journal, establishes a unique position in the marketplace.
RationaleA geographical perspective has always been crucial to the understanding of the social and physical organisation of the world around us. The techniques of spatial analysis provide a powerful means for the assembly and interpretation of evidence, and thus to address critical questions about issues such as crime and deprivation, immigration and demographic restructuring, retailing activity and employment change, resource management and environmental improvement. Many of these issues are equally important to academic research as they are to policy makers and Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy aims to close the gap between these two perspectives by providing a forum for discussion of applied research in a range of different contexts
Topical and interdisciplinaryIncreasingly government organisations, administrative agencies and private businesses are requiring research to support their ‘evidence-based’ strategies or policies. Geographical location is critical in much of this work which extends across a wide range of disciplines including demography, actuarial sciences, statistics, public sector planning, business planning, economics, epidemiology, sociology, social policy, health research, environmental management.
FocusApplied Spatial Analysis and Policy will draw on applied research from diverse problem domains, such as transport, policing, education, health, environment and leisure, in different international contexts. The journal will therefore provide insights into the variations in phenomena that exist across space, it will provide evidence for comparative policy analysis between domains and between locations, and stimulate ideas about the translation of spatial analysis methods and techniques across varied policy contexts. It is essential to know how to measure, monitor and understand spatial distributions, many of which have implications for those with responsibility to plan and enhance the society and the environment in which we all exist.
Readership and Editorial BoardAs a journal focused on applications of methods of spatial analysis, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy will be of interest to scholars and students in a wide range of academic fields, to practitioners in government and administrative agencies and to consultants in private sector organisations. The Editorial Board reflects the international and multidisciplinary nature of the journal.
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