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Title: The Retail Model and its Applications

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: The next step in the argument is through another example: a model of a retail system. This serves as a valuable demonstrator of a number of model design principles. It is both simple and easy to understand but can also be developed in a way that is rich and realistic. As usual, we have a discrete spatial system: zones for residential areas and what are taken as points for retail centresso in this case origins, i, and destinations, j, represent different spatial systems. London is shown as an example in Fig. 2.1: there are 623 wards with centroids shown as dots, and 220 retail centres shown in blocks...

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Authors: Wilson, Alan

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Volume Title: The Science of Cities and Regions

Publisher: Springer

Publisher Location: London, UK

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Edition: 1

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Topics: Housing and Segregation, Migration and Immigration, Poverty and Welfare

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