This document contains the first two chapters from my dissertation, titled Three Essays on Consumption and Geography, which use data provided by the Kilts Center for Marketing Data Center. Together they highlight the importance of accounting for geographic differences in new product entry to...

Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Figuring out the geographies of fashion -- 2 Fashioning the global city: architecture and the building of fashion space -- 3 Fast fashion, global spaces, and bio-commodification -- 4 Slow fashion and investment consumption -- 5 Luxury:...

The main objective of the paper is to analyse the changes in structure of city expenses. It evolves according to changes of urban development goals, which reflects the hierarchy of needs of the city users. In this context the urban consumption illustrates firstly lasting of key urban functions,...