ABSTRACT
This chapter examines selected British studies that seek to establish a hierarchical system of shopping centres. Selection‘has been based on two criteria: first the need to exemplify classification at the national, regional (interurban), and metropolitan (intraurban) levels; and secondly the need to illustrate the importance of basic measures that are relevant not just to the classification but also to the entire spatial analysis of shopping-centre systems. Studies that relate the movement of consumers to the structure of centres have been reserved for later discussion.
