GEO 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Convenience Store, Demand Curve, Distance Decay
20 Dec 2017
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Shopping mall: you can walk from store to store. Power centre: driving from store to store, by a big highway (accessible) Shopping mall it"s enclosed (walking indoors) and mocks a small town of shopping (the traditional street) but entirely enclosed (controlled environment) Path: 100,000 people that work within connection to the path without having to go outside. Fastest growing type of retailing: online retailing, it"s new but the concept reflects catalogues and picking from a distant, traditional catalogue shopping (associated with big retailers) eaton"s, sears etc. Spatial concepts & the value of location (topics to. Intra-urban retail hierarchies: basic spatial concepts, location and demand (the spatial demand curve, location and competition (the hotelling model, land value & land use, bouncing a spatial market, models. Basic spatial concepts (again: distance decay vs disincentive nature of distance, reasons why you wouldn"t go longer distances vs cost in money and time, the last best west.
