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- Title
Metropolitan Retail Structure and Its Relation to Population.
- Authors
Casparis, John
- Abstract
In the concentration zone formulation developed by Ernest W. Burgess the city is organized ecologically around a dominant nucleus called the Central Business District (CBD). Part of the CBD is the retail shopping district which functions, according to Roderick D. McKenzie, as "the focal point of centralization in the modern community." More than any other commercial function, retail trade is closely related to the distribution and composition of the population. The purpose of this article is to do a re-assessment of the functional relationship between retailing and population. Despite over-all sales losses, it is possible that some retail functions remain centralized in the CBD. Traditionally, shopping goods such as general merchandise and apparel stores locate in the CBD while convenience goods such as food stores distribute themselves widely through the community. The suburbanization of retailing is partly a function of the suburbanization of the population. The study suggests that even if the CBD is given access to the new highway and cross-town expressway systems of the metropolitan community it will not recapture its traditional position of retail dominance held at a time when all major transportation channels converged on the center.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CENTRAL business districts; RETAIL industry; METROPOLITAN areas; URBAN growth; URBAN planning; SHOPPING; POPULATION
- Publication
Land Economics, 1967, Vol 43, Issue 2, p212
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3145244