In Singapore, the major retailing trends have been the spatial distribution of retailing activities originally concentrated in the Central Area and the development of planned shopping centres. Such retail developments have simultaneously averted
decline in the Central Area and promoted the growth of suburban retail centres.
Recent locational trends of large-scale retail stores in the Tokyo metropolitan region
This paper analyzes the difference in the distribution patterns of large-scale retail stores by scales and management types in the Tokyo metropolitan Region. Analysis has been made for the years 1975-1981, during which period a peak of large-scale
retail store opening was seen between 1976 and 1980. - (KA)
An attempt to apply western model of retail geography in Beijing using concepts of range, threshold, accessibility, etc. based on survey data from enumeration of shops and services, sample survey of customer origin, mode and time of transport
. Retail and service facilities are classified into 4 types while the analysis groups the centres into 5 orders. Over concentration is pointed out and establishment of intermediate centres recommended for new suburban areas. (TNC).
Changes of retail central place system in Miyagi Prefecture
The purpose of this paper is to verify an assumption (In the previous paper he made the assumption that the number of hierarchical levels in the retail central place system is not determined by the size of trade activity or the trade area
Among the most typical functions which are suburbanizing these days are the retail functions. This phenomenon is analysed from two sides. The index of population specialization in the retail function of each administrative unit (cities, wards, town
and villages) is calculated. The change of the commercial districts where consumers in the metropolitan area go to buy is examined. The results: the retail functions of most units in the suburbs are supplying all the demand of their population. The commercial
districts at the core of the central cities however maintain their position. And it is the retail function of the units in the inner city, except for the cores, and the units at the edge of metropolitan area that are stagnant. The monocentric structure
Most Japanese geographers regard distribution activities as a spatial system and have analysed these activities from a spatial viewpoint. Whole saling and retailing are the two stages of the distribution system. An overview of some environmental
While the vertical differentiation of urban function has advanced in Japanese cities since the 1960's. the underground has been utilized as new space for retailing, parking and public street. The purpose of this is to analyse characteristics
carried in 1971 and 1981. Vertical growth is more evident and vertical differentiation progressing more in type A. There is a tendancy for retail and amusement functions to be located exclusively in type B and horizontal differentiation tends to arise