Retailing, public policy and urban retail planning. Proceedings of the international symposium
Inner city ; Lisbon ; Portugal ; Retail trade ; Urban life
Recently there has been a growing concern about urban environment and the quality of urban way of life. Usually, the revitalisation of urban activities is considered as one of the most important urban activities. The A. argues that retail can play
Choice and constraint in the location of urban retail activities
Decision ; Location choice ; Practical work ; Research technique ; Retail trade ; Teaching of geography
Elaborates philosophical and methodological questions of locational decision-making : « extensive » vs. « intensive » research; and voluntarism and determinism in social activity. Includes a students exercise on retail outlets to explore the meaning
An analysis of the equilibrium locational pattern of retail and its dynamics in Tokyo
Commercial attraction ; Honshu ; Japan ; Location ; Model ; Retail trade ; Shopping behaviour ; Tokyo
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the spatiality and dynamics of equilibrium values of attractiveness terms of a shopping behaviour model and to explain present retail locational patterns in Tokyo's 23-ward area. The A. indicates 4 points
Retailing, public policy and urban retail planning. Proceedings of the international symposium
Government policy ; Outer conurbation area ; Retail trade ; Shopping behaviour ; United Kingdom
Using the results of a major study into the impact of major out-of-town retail activity, this paper considers the ways in which these development have changed shopping behaviour and the implications for UK retail planning policy in the years ahead.
The change of urban retail structures and the new urban planning: the case of Barcelona
Retailing, public policy and urban retail planning. Proceedings of the international symposium
Barcelona ; Catalonia ; Internationalization ; Large city ; Retail trade ; Spain ; Urban planning
This paper looks at retailing from an urban analysis tradition. Located at the cross-roads between different approaches, this line of thought allows new insights in old urban questions and, at the same time, proposes new theoretical perspectives
Retailing, public policy and urban retail planning. Proceedings of the international symposium
Commercial infrastructure ; Inner city ; Madrid ; Retail trade ; Spain
In this paper recent transformation in retailing structure in the city center of Madrid is analyzed. Besides this transformation, the typical retailing city center, with big stores and a lot of modern and specialized shops, still subsists
deterioration of the city center, have been the main causes of the evolution of city center retailing.
Antitrust regulation and the restructuring of grocery retailing in Britain and the USA
Competition ; Economic environment ; Investment ; Labour productivity ; Legislation ; Profit ; Regulation theory ; Retail trade ; Trade;Commerce ; United Kingdom ; United States ; Wholesale trade
It is demonstrated how disparities which emerged between British and US grocery retailing in the 1980s (corporate concentration, power relations, profitability, return of capital employed, geographical structure) owe a considerable amount
Congress ; Consumer behaviour ; Dublin ; France ; Geography of trade ; Germany ; India ; Inner city ; Ireland ; Japan ; Latin America ; Madrid ; Munich ; Osaka ; Pedestrian area ; Retail trade ; Rouen ; Service ; Shopping centre ; Spain ; United
Trading places. Fashion, retailers and the changing geography of clothing production
. Therefore the structural changes in international trade are described and also the changes in the relations between retailers and manufacturers. Besides the A. discusses and analyses the firm strategies in the Netherlands (the Northern Part and Groningen