Managing the Marketplace: Reinventing Shopping Centres in Post-War Australia

This book charts the history of Australian retail developments as well as examining the social and cultural dimensions of shopping in Australia.

In the second half of the twentieth century, the shopping centre spread from America around the world. Australia was a very early adopter, and produced a unique shopping centre model. Situating Australian retail developments within a broader international and historical context, Managing the Marketplace demonstrates the ways that local conditions s...