Purpose: This paper aims to relate early history of housing conceptualizations and market analysis in the Anglosphere (Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand). Historians are ignorant of them but clear market analyses had early beginnings in every urban society for developing and...

Housing quality is an important component of the standard of living, touching on aspects usually ignored in efforts to measure it, in part because housing quality itself is difficult to measure--especially over time. There are choices over inputs versus outputs for quality, and over objectively...

Last month’s <em>Whole Foods</em> decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit can be viewed from a variety of perspectives. Our focus in this commentary is how the decision is likely to reinforce the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s...

Location is an important aspect of retailing, and London entrepreneurs recognized it as early as the 1560s in building exchanges to house a collection of shops, taking them off the street. These shopping centres created a special shopping environment: shelter, safety, and shop agglomeration....