Geography and Retailing

by Peter Scott

Overview

An important contribution to our understanding of the distribution of retail activities, particularly within cities, this book provides a critical review of the literature on the subject. It points out the major general propositions concerning retailing from the geographical point of view, and identifies key research problems, which need to be examined in order to push forward the frontiers of this sub field of economic geography. It presents a major critique of the central-place model, which has come to hold an important place in the methodology of economic geography, and clearly and decisively shows the model to be static, deterministic, retrospective and of little value for predictive purposes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202309460
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	03/15/2007
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Scott is a recognized expert in the geography of retailing and the economic geography of cities. He is engaged in continuing research in these areas and has worked in South Africa, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

1: Retail Geography and Central-Place Studies; 2: Retail Sites and Spatial Affinities; 3: Retail Organisation & Government Regulation; 4: Retail Markets and Establishment Size; 5: Retail Trends and Spatial Competition; 6: Shopping-Centre Delimitation and Classification; 7: Hierarchical Systems: Selected British Studies; 8: Traditional Markets and Shopping-Centre Systems; 9: Hierarchical Systems: Selected American Studies; 10: Centrality, Markets, and Shopping-Centre Structure; 11: Prediction Techniques and Retail-Location Models

Editorial Reviews

Scott heightens the reader’s awareness of retail linkages among adjacent establishments and the regional and national variations in store location patterns. . . . The documentation provided by its references and breadth of coverage recommends it to the reader who seeks to understand spatial relations in retailing.” —George Fisk, The Journal of Business “A comprehensive guide.” —John Freeman, The Town Planning Review “Scott’s small book has many valuable attributes. Although aimed at an undergraduate audience, the work will have a wider readership for the clarity of his style, the perception of many of his comments and the comprehensive list of references make it a worth-while survey of the existing literature.” —W. K. D. Davies, Geography

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