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Abstract: We model the development of the market area around a newly opened retailer in terms of the diffusion of individual consumer adoptions across time and space. The large number of such events in an economic society and the paucity of studies on market-area evolution make the subject an important one. For a profit-seeking diffusion propagator tied to a particular location, likelihood of success is closely related to the speed and spatial pattern of consumer adoptions. An event-history model of the process is constructed and tested with household-level data. Empirical results indicate that (1) both the information-flow forces of Hager strand and supply-side effects of Brown are highly significant in driving the process of market-area development for a low-involvement innovation and interurban setting, and (2) neighborhood diffusion nodes emerge at both predictable and random locations. Once established, however, both types can be influenced by purposeful efforts by the propagator. In general, the methodology appears to offer significant promise for modeling diffusion and other time-space processes at a disaggregate, highly detailed level.

Amin, Ashm and Stephen Graham. "The Ordinary City." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 22, No. 4 1997: 411-429.
As debates on globalization have progressed from an earlier phase in which commentators saw the intensification of worldscale flows and processes as the negation of local identities and autonomies, the city has been 'rediscovered' as the powerhouse of the globalized economy. Against the view that questions, for example, the continued specificity of the urban in an era increasingly mediated by locational liberating, advanced telecommunications and rapid transport networks, some strands of urban research assert that cities are becoming more important as the key creative, control and cultural centers within globalizing economic, cultural and social dynamics. Building on these strands, this paper evaluates the assets that cities and metropolitan regions provide in an era of globalization. It attempts to develop an alternative perspective on the city based on the idea that contemporary urban life is founded on the heterogeneity of economic, social, cultural and institutional assets, and concludes by using this perspective to develop implications for urban policy and the quest for social and territorial justice.

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Much commentary indicates that, starting from the 19th century, the home has become the privileged site of private life. In doing so it has established an increasingly rigid separation between the private and public spheres. This article does not disagree with this basic conviction. But we argue that, in more recent times, there has been a further development, in that the private life of the home has been carried into the public sphere-what we call "the domestication of public space." This has led to a further attenuation of public life, especially as regards sociability. It has also increased the perception that what is required is a better "balance" between public and private. We argue that this misconstrues the nature of the relation of public to private in those periods that attained the greatest degree of sociability, and that not "balance" but "reciprocity" is the desired condition.

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The mass-produced products we consume embody elements from the realms of nature, meaning, and social relations. These realms are difficult to integrate on a theoretical plane, but as consumers of these products, we draw these elements together in everyday life and transform them to create places as contexts. These places, which are the basis of our built environments, are also loci for constituting modern-and some would say post-modern-paradoxes and contradictions. They become foils to social theory. Through our actions as consumers and through the language of consumption, modern paradoxes and modern places become inextricably intertwined. I will examine these processes through the rhetoric of advertisements in general and in the structure of real geographical "places of consumption" and places consumed "en masse. " This analysis will assist us in understanding the qualities of modern place, the characteristics of modern theory, and how our everyday acts as consumers mediate between them.

The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy. "Don Mitchell." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 85, No. 1 March 1995: 108-133. "The Inception of the English Railway Station." Architectural History, Vol. 4 1961: 63-76. Whiteley, Nigel. "Pop, Consumerism, and the Design Shift." Design Issues, Vol. 2, No. 2 Autumn 1985: 31-45.
Much has been written in recent years about the crisis and demise of modernism and the subsequent rise of postmodernism. The debate about postmodern theory and practice continues, but with many wrong leads and much woolly thinking. A major omission in the current debate is an assessment of the importance of a movement that itself was a reaction to modernism and a pointer to how things might be: Pop. Nothing of any substance has yet been published on Pop, and so the view we most commonly hear is the superficial one that Pop was little more than flashy showmanship, a necessary antidote to modernism, but short-lived and with no lasting value. The implications of Pop for design theory - and in particular postmodernism - are, however, considerable, and this paper argues the case for its lasting importance and significance.