Two Towns in Germany: Commerce and the Urban Transformation
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Two Towns in Germany: Commerce and the Urban Transformation
By (Author) Norbert Dannhaeuser
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
16th February 1996
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Business and Management
City and town planning: architectural aspects
307.760943
Physical Properties
Hardback
328
Description
Many forces threaten the viability of town centres. One of them is trade concentration in which family businesses are replaced by large, vertically integrated retail enterprises. Town centres, once locations of a rich variety of street stores in the hands of a local and independent merchant community, are being supplanted by monolithic and decentralised commercial zones. This process is documented in contemporary Germany for two towns, one grounded in a market economy and the other, until recently, socialistically based. In both cases, trade concentration is a prevailing force - a pattern that is not only found in post-industrialised nations, but also in developing countries in Latin America and Asia and is indicative of an emerging global culture.
Author Bio
NORBERT DANNHAEUSER is Professor of Anthropology at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Contemporary Trade Strategies in the Philippines: A Study in Marketing Anthropology (1983).
