ABSTRACT
It has been indicated before that there are two main groups of new retail developments, the purpose-built shopping centres and the individual large stores. Both groups contain a variety of retail forms, with most of the variability in the former occurring where they have been built in traditional town or city centre locations and that in the latter in the more residential parts of the city. Both groups are also intertwined, of course, so that large stores, such as superstores, may be part of a town centre shopping scheme or an outlying district centre, as well as sometimes being free-standing. In view of the complexity, rather than treating the two groups in a strict systematic way, we shall examine them in the context of the prevailing areal settings in which they are found, distinguishing first the town centre shopping schemes and later the residential area shopping schemes.
