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Retail Change: Contemporary Issues - Softcover

Bromley, R.

 
9781857280609: Retail Change: Contemporary Issues

Synopsis

The economic, social and environmental implications of recent changes in retailing constitute significant contemporary issues, which are the focus of this timely book. "Retail change" deals with the internationalization of retailing, the development of shopping centres in the city and at suburban sites, and the growth of "leisure shopping". It provides an up-to-date review of the central questions faced by undergraduate students in planning, business studies and geography. The retail environment of developed economies has undergone revolutionary change since the 1970s, and the process is far from over. In the book the major elements central to contemporary retail change are developed across the whole spectrum of spatial scales relevant to present-day society. The first part adopts an economic perspective and focuses on the process of business concentration and its increasingly international orientation. This is followed by analyses of change in the urban region, concentrating on the em

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