Spatial Retail Trade Structure

The research work titled “Analysis of the Spatial Structure of retail Trade in Pharmaceutical products in Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria” is a detailed study of the evolution of spatial structure of retail trade in pharmaceutical products in a fast growing metropolis, Kaduna, Nigeria. The study is an in-depth retrospective analysis of the development of spatial structure of retail trade and the influence of policy dynamics in its evolution. Readers of this book, especially Geographers, governments, Urban and Regional Planners, businessmen and women and all those interested in the distribution and patterns of retail activities, will find this material very valuable.

The spatial structure of retail activities in urban centres of developing countries follow the patterns obtained in developed countries. Pharmaceutical products retailing was used for identifying the contributory factors that gave rise to the spatial retail trade structure in a fast developing metropolis, Kaduna, Nigeria.