Consumer behaviour ; Location ; Market area ; Retail trade ; Transport cost ; Trip
Fetter's law, a classical result of location theory, is respecified to include search costs. Then the implied partition of the market space is derived.
Univariate classification of differentiated international markets
Competition ; Demand ; Economic integration ; International trade ; Market ; Price fixing ; Spatial analysis ; Theory ; World
Hotelling initiated the use of spatial analogies in assessing market differentiation. The continuum of demand points in the economies is partitioned into homogeneous segments by use of a classification algorithm that minimizes within group variation
. The criteria used for classifying are two indicators of market overlap, proximity of GNP and proximity of per capita GNP. The market partitions are compared with other classifications of international markets.
Central places ; Centrality ; Competition ; Market ; Market area ; Model ; Retail trade ; Spatial economy ; Spatial interaction ; Spatial system
A nested family of market interaction models for the general case of spatial or aspatial goods is developed. Market structure effects are identified in the form of intraregional and extraregional competition. The competing destinations and competing
City marketing, image reconstruction and urban regeneration
Economie urbaine ; Glasgow ; Image de la ville ; Image de marque ; Marketing ; Publicité ; Restructuration économique ; Royaume-Uni ; Scotland ; Strathclyde ; Structure de l'emploi
Brand image ; Economic restructuring ; Employment structure ; Glasgow ; Marketing ; Perception of the urban environment ; Publicity ; Scotland ; Strathclyde ; United Kingdom ; Urban economy
City marketing is more than the mere promotion of place, being used in some cities to rebuild and redefine their image. Examining the experience of Glasgow, the paper focuses on the implications raised by the use of such techniques, showing
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the condominium sector on a household's tenure transition by comparing condominium owner-occupants who moved from the rental market with those who moved from the ownership market. The focus
The land market in Mexico under Salinas : a real-estate boom revisited?
Economic policy ; Investment ; Land market ; Land value ; Land;Real estate ; Mexico ; Real estate market ; Real estate speculation ; State control
The structure of the land market in Mexico for the period 1988-94 is studied. The immediate policies of Salinas, especially the control of inflation, brought about a return to the favourable conditions of real-estate investment that had existed
L'A. montre qu'il peut être intéressant d'adapter plus globalement la démarche stratégique du marketing au problème du développement économique local. Le cadre conceptuel du marketing interorganisationnel sert de base à une conception du marketing
Household dissolutions and departure from the housing market in an ageing society
Demography ; Elderly people ; Family structure ; Housing market ; Netherlands (The) ; Population ageing ; Retired people
This book charts the consequences of the increase in the number of people over 65 for the supply side of the housing market. The research was built around three concepts : the dissolution of a household, the departure from a dwelling
Russia on the way to a housing market: a case study of St Petersburg
Housing ; Housing market ; Housing policy ; Landed estate ; Legislation ; Privatisation ; Property right ; Russia ; Saint Petersburg ; Urban construction
The government has launched a privatization program with the aim of creating a housing market in place of administrative allocation. The goals of the reformers are narrow, and the reforms yield little and contradictory private-ownership laws. In St
Petersburg, a short-lived privatization program collapsed in early 1993. Number of questions are asked: what is behind the privatization program, what forces are pushing for reforms, who opposes them and will privatization relieve the housing crisis?
Land-use planning ang the housing market in Britain: the impact on housebuilding and house prices
Great Britain ; Housing ; Housing cost ; Housing market ; Housing policy ; Land use ; Model ; Supply ; United Kingdom ; Urban planning
The impact of the British style of land-use planning upon the outcomes of private housing development and the housing market is examined. A unique cross-sectional database is constructed, and the medium-term elasticity of new housebuilding supply
The substance and use of data digitisation and conversion in Czech geography. Basic digitising methods are explained and described. The contemporary situation on the domestic market with digitising devices is shown. - (MS)
Autoregressive process ; Forecast ; Harbour ; Kansas ; Market ; Price fixing ; Statistics ; Storage site ; Texas ; Time series ; Transport cost ; United States ; Wheat
Les représentations urbaines: l'imaginaire au service du marketing urbain
Chaque ville rivalise pour affirmer son image et son rayonnement grâce aux méthodes du marketing urbain. Si certaines promotions sont réussies, les échecs s'expliquent par une mauvaise connaissance des relations subjectives que les hommes
Customers ; Economic environment ; Employment ; Enquiry ; Enterprise;Firm ; Expertise ; Market ; Producer services ; Service ; Small firm ; United Kingdom
Reports the results of an intensive questionnaire survey of a sample of small management consultancy and market research companies in three areas; inner London, the outer south east, and north west England. In interpreting the demand and supply
characteristics of these firms, emphasis is placed on their interactions with the internal labour market strategies of predominantly large client organisations.
Les balbutiements du marketing à l'Est : Hongrie, Pologne, République tchèque et Slovaquie
Eastern Europe ; Economic strategy ; Market research ; Publicity ; Trade ; Western Europe
premières tentatives de plan marketing, dans un environnement encore spécifique et mouvant, qu'il s'agisse de la distribution, de la publicité, des medias, des dispositions légales... ou du comportement volatile du consommateur.