This book is the first systematic exposition of advances in Kaiyu studies carried out by the author and his colleagues in Japan and other parts of Asia. Consumer shop-around behavior is referred to as Kaiyu in Japanese, a term widely used in several fields such as city planning, marketing, real...

Chapter 1. A disaggregate hierarchical decision Huff model incorporating consumer Kaiyu choices among shopping sites -- Chapter 2. A dynamical Huff model: Computing the competitive equilibrium distribution of shop floor areas over a city center commercial district using the Fixed-Point Algorithm...

1. Consumer behaviors and new urban development trends -- Part I Activity and Value in Towns -- 2. The evaluation of urban development policies: From activity effect approach to consumer behavior approach -- 3. The goal of urban development: An emerging view of town equity -- 4. City marketing...