Die Eroberung der Stadtnacht ist an die Verfügbarkeit der künstlichen Beleuchtung gebunden und erfolgte daher menschheitsgeschichtlich sehr spät. Stadtnacht wird trotz aller Erschließung - die allerdings weit von 24/7 entfernt ist - weiterhin als "anderer" Zeit-Raum wahrgenommen. Zum einen...

The retail sectors in many industrialized countries have experienced a large increase in concentration and the appearance of so-called \retail deserts\, areas of low retail provision. This study addresses the role of international trade in this process. The analysis shows that by raising product...

Locational competition is geographic competition, competition between places, between cities, between regions, and between countries. These spatial units compete with each other for the mobile production factors in factor markets, i.e., for mobile capital, for mobile technical know-how, and for...