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The Retail Model and its Applications

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The Science of Cities and Regions

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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 centres—so in this case origins, i, and destinations, j, represent different spatial systems.

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  1. Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Alan Wilson

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Wilson, A. (2012). The Retail Model and its Applications. In: The Science of Cities and Regions. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2266-8_2

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