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11. Retail and Marketing Channels (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

    Edited by Srinivas Reddy, Luca Pellegrini

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

    Retailer’s buying power has significantly increased in recent years as a result of a process of market concentration. As vertical relationships in marketing channels have strengthened their influence over the shape of the industry, the producer-distributor relationship has become more central to an...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
12. Shopping Centre Development (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

    Edited by John Dawson, Dennis Lord

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

    The shopping centre has become an established feature of urban structure over the past thirty years. Development of centres has been rapid and little attempt has been made to consider the development process and the problems caused by it. There is a growing awareness that centres are not always...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
13. The Development of the Wholesaler in the United States 1860-1900 (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

    By Bill Reid Moeckel

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

    Although the scientific study of marketing is relatively new, certain aspects of it have been analyzed in considerable detail. A body of literature exists, for example, on the various phases of retailing and advertising. It is only in the last decade or two, however, that much attention has been...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
14. Retailing and the Public (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

    By Lawrence Neal

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

    In one of the first books to treat retailing as a subject of serious analysis, Retailing and the Public examines the state of one of the most important industries in the country. Retailing gives direct employment to more people than any other trade; it accounts for over half of national income. No...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
15. The Economics of the Distributive Trades (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

    By Patrick McAnally

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

    First published in 1971, The Economics of the Distributive Trades is a comprehensive analysis of all sectors of the British retailing sector, written by the then-head of the Research Department of the John Lewis Partnership. Using economic statistics and modelling, Patrick McAnally examines the the...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
16. The Cultural Contradictions of Progressive Politics

    The Role of Cultural Change and the Global Economy in Local Policymaking

    By Donald Rosdil

    Series: Routledge Research in Urban Politics and Policy

    Why do some U.S. cities like Seattle and Boston impose social exactions and sustainability targets on private investment while others like Las Vegas and Houston offer property tax and fee remissions to business, tolerate environmentally hazardous activities such as oil drilling, and express...

    Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
17. The Connected City

    How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis

    By Zachary P. Neal

    Series: The Metropolis and Modern Life

    The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can be examined as networks, and these urban networks can be examined at many different levels. The book focuses on three...

    Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
18. Host Cities and the Olympics

    An Interactionist Approach

    By Harry Hiller

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

    Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through...

    Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
19. The Dynamics of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Asia

    Edited by Amrita Daniere, Hy Van Luong

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    The purpose of this volume is to highlight the impacts on civic engagement of social capital, and its various component parts (trust, norms, networks and associations), in diverse parts of Asia. Addressing the pressing need for improved governance within the spatial, political and cultural...

    Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
20. Staging the New Berlin

    Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989

    By Claire Colomb

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall, the ‘...

    Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge