Reading Retail: A Geographical Perspective on Retailing and Consumption Spaces (Hodder Arnold Publication) [Paperback]

Neil Wrigley (Author), Michelle Lowe (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0340706600 | ISBN-13: 978-0340706602 | Publication Date: April 25, 2002

The geographies of retailing and consumption have become one of the key topics of the twenty-first century, both in terms of research and and undergraduate teaching. The undergraduate literature has been slow to keep up with this rapidly developing field and students have to look to a wide range of sources - often relatively obscure - to obtain a clear overview of current research into retailing. This major new text provides students with such an overview in a single, accessible volume. It brings together the authors' own writing and a wide range of short "readings" drawn from other sources, which have been integrated into the flow of the text.

Editorial Reviews

Review

More than any other textbook in retailing it encourages readers to obtain and confront the literature. The is an engagaing, somewhat unconventional text ... it contains within it the sense of interest and excitement too often lost in conventional textbooks ... I expect it to become the key text on the subject in geography. -- Urban Studies, Volume 40, page 861 20030401 Hopefully the book will excite more scholars to become interested in the field and, as a result, produce a stronger and more inclusive retail geography than has existed previously. -- Professional Geographer 20030715 Reading Retail is absolutely recommended for those who want to enter the fascinating multicoloured world of retail geography. -- European Spatial Research and Policy 20030715 ...quite simply, a stunningly accessible undergraduate text which seems destined to be the core text for many geography courses. If retail educators wish to expose their students to a vast range of interesting and important topics and to do so in a lively and accessible way then this would be the ideal text. It deserves to be found, and surely soon will be, on many an academic bookshelf. -- Tjidschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 20030604 Provides a stimulating and succinct text for students and researchers to begin reading the debates associated with the new retail geography. -- Progress in Human Geography 20030604 This is a jam-packed book, full of ideas, data, and thought provoking perspectives on everything you want to know about retail geography (and more)! this book is about more than retailing -- it resonates with broader questions in geography, planning, sociology, and cultural studies about the character of the contemporary economy.' -- Environment and Planning A 20040301

About the Author

Neil Wrigley is Professor of Human Geography,University of Southampton,UK Michelle Lowe is Professor of Retail Management,School ofManagement,University of Surrey,UK

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers (April 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340706600
• ISBN-13: 978-0340706602
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #196,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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