Globalization and the economic opening of a country generate new challenges for local and traditional commercial spaces. The present work addresses this problem placing it in a typical commercial space… Click to show full abstract
Globalization and the economic opening of a country generate new challenges for local and traditional commercial spaces. The present work addresses this problem placing it in a typical commercial space of Santiago: Victoria neighborhood; linked to the field of leather and footwear. The aim is to understand the subsistence and adaptation of this commercial space in the face of the phenomenon of the importation of Asian footwear. To respond to this, a qualitative/spatial method was used to promote a relational analysis of the work spaces present in the neighborhood, based on the space-work agency carried out by tenants.
               
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