Considers how and to what extent common features in shopping centre development have become apparent across Europe, drawing on new and comparable statistics on such development within selected European countries. Sets out a tentative framework within which apparently widely diverse experiences...

Argues that global networked environments, such as the Internet and those of online service providers such as AOL and CompuServe, provide not only challenging philosophical dilemmas ‐ where nowhere is anywhere ‐ but more practical economic and operational difficulties for retailers and...