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Further Readings in Retail and Business Geography

Below are a few recommendations for books and articles worthy of further reading in retail geography and related study fields.

​The references listed here include some established classics in the field along with some more recent research contributions.


A couple of notes on these readings links:
  • Most links related to articles published in academic journals direct you to a journal website. In these cases, if you are accessing this course website from a UNT computer, you will be able to download, read and save a PDF version of the reading.
 
  • Most links related to books direct you to an Amazon.com link that provides full information on the book. I am not suggesting that you need to buy these books, or that Amazon is the best place to purchase if you do wish to buy the book. However, these book links provide a helpful summary of full bibliographic information (and in some cases, reviews and partial content) for each volume. You might find these volumes in our UNT library or other local sources.

Applebaum, William (1966) Methods of determining store trade areas, market penetration, and potential sales. Journal of Marketing Research 3(2), 127-141.

Baker, Robert G.V., and Stephen Wood (2010) Towards robust development of retail planning policy: Maintaining the viability and vitality of Main Street shopping precincts. Geographical Research 48(1), 65-74.

Berry, Brian J.L. (1969) Geography of Market Centers and Retail Distribution. Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 

Berry, Brian J.L., Edgar C. Conkling, and D. Michael Ray (1987) Economic Geography, Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ. ISBN: 0-13-231440-1

Birkin, Mark, Graham Clarke, and Martin Clarke (2002) Retail Geography and Intelligent Network Planning. Wiley: New York. ISBN: 0-471-49803-3.

Caliper (2013) Maptitude Mapping Software. Caliper Corporation: Newton, MA. [Link to the summary page for the Maptitude GIS software package]

Caliper (2016) Maptitude Brochure. Caliper Corporation: Newton, MA. [Brochure for the current version of the Maptitude software package]

Church, Richard L., and Alan T. Murray (2008) Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS. Wiley: New York. ISBN: 978-0470191064.

Coe, Neil M., and Martin Hess (2005) The internationalization of retailing: implications for supply network restructuring in East Asia and Eastern Europe. Journal of Economic Geography 5(4), 449-473. 

Coe, Neil M., and Neil Wrigley (2007) Host economy impacts of transnational retail: The research agenda. Journal of Economic Geography 7, 341-371.

Dickinson, Amie, and Murray D. Rice (2010) Retail development and downtown change: Shopping mall impacts on Port Huron, Michigan. Applied Research in Economic Development 7(1), 2-13.

Esri (2011) Tapestry Segmentation Reference Guide. Esri: Redlands, CA.

Esri (2012) Business Analyst Online Brochure. Esri: Redlands, CA.

Esri (2012) Business Analyst Online Report Reference Guide. Esri: Redlands, CA.

Esri (2012) Improving Retail Performance With Location Analytics. Esri: Redlands, CA.

Esri (2013) White Paper Library. Esri: Redlands, CA. [The complete collection of all of Esri's informational papers on a variety of issues related to geography, data, and GIS technology -- many insights and much background here worthwhile to explore]

Gladwell, Malcolm (2004) The terrazzo jungle. The New Yorker, March 15, 120-127.

Graff, Thomas O. (2006) Unequal competition among chains of supercenters: Kmart, Target, and Wal-Mart. The Professional Geographer 58(1), 54-64.

Hernandez, Tony, Tony Lea, Anthony Spanolo, and Amanda Maze (2004) Shopping centers, power retailing and evolving retail environments: A comparison of the retail markets of Dallas-Fort Worth and Toronto. Journal of Shopping Center Research 11(1), 55-111.

Huff, David L. (1964) Defining and estimating a trading area. Journal of Marketing 28(3), 34-38.

Holloway, Charles A. (1979) Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Models and Choices, Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ. ISBN: 0-13-197749-0

Jones, Ken, and Jim Simmons (1990) The Retail Environment, Routledge: London. ISBN: 0-415-04985-7

Leslie, Timothy F., and Breandan O hUallachain (2013) Spatial pattern and order in Sunbelt retailing: Shopping in Phoenix in the Twenty-First Century. The Professional Geographer 65(3), 396-420.

McNellis, John (2015) Back to school: Real estate jargon demystified. Urbanland, September 21.

Nelson, Garrett Dash, and Alasdair Rae (2016) An economic geography of the United States: From commutes to megaregions. PLoS One 11(11), e0166083.

Regan, Amanda, and Murray D. Rice (2012) An exploration of alternative food desert definitions in south Dallas. Papers of the Applied Geography Conference 35, 182-190.

Shields, Martin, and Matt Kures (2007) Black out of the blue light: An analysis of Kmart store closing decisions. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 14, 259-268.

Stief, Ken (2013) Why do certain retail stores cluster together? Planetizen, October 24.

Underhill, Paco (2004) Call of the Mall. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN: 978-0743235914

Wilson-Chavez, Owen, and Murray D. Rice (2012) Substance versus style: What is the role of new urban development in the restructuring of metropolitan retail? Papers of the Applied Geography Conference 35, 383-391.

Wrigley, Neil, and Michelle Lowe (2002) Reading Retail: A Geographical Perspective on Retailing and Consumption Spaces, Arnold: London. ISBN: 0-340-70660-0
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