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Making the Next Move: How Experiential and Vicarious Learning Shape the Locations of Chains' Acquisitions:

In the study reported in this article the roles of social cohesion, residential satisfaction, and place identification are examined for their effect on place-related social identity and its consequential impact on attitudes to environmental sustainability. Two neighborhoods in Guildford, Surrey, England were selected on the basis of their social histories, housing types, and socioeconomic composition. Ninety residents in each neighborhood were sampled. Research methods included cognitive mapping and a questionnaire survey. A structural equation model was used to analyze the covariances between the different factors. The results show clear differences between the two neighborhoods in terms of residential satisfaction, with only some differences in terms of identification and social cohesion and sustainability. Conclusions are drawn that suggest an important relationship between identity and sustainability behavior that is suggestive for future research.

Place identification, social cohesion, and environmental sustainability

This article suggests ways to better design, conduct, and interpret evaluations of the effects of housing mobility programs on participants, with emphasis on how to isolate neighborhood effects. It reviews earlier critiques of neighborhood effects research and discusses the key assumptions of housing mobility programs—about the benefits of affluent neighbors, the spatial organization of opportunity for the urban poor, and the meanings of “neighborhood” to residents, researchers, and policy makers. Studying mobility contexts, especially in suburban areas, offers special challenges to researchers. More research is needed that looks at residents’ social ties and uses mixed-methods approaches. Ethnographic data, in particular, would enhance the validity of the quantitative data that now dominate studies of neighborhood effects. Adding substantially to what we know about the processes or mechanisms—the “how” of neighborhood effects—mixedmethods approaches would also make research much more useful to policy makers and program managers.

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Moving Up versus Moving Out: Neighborhood Effects in Housing Mobility Programs

Purpose – The paper aims to determine the attractiveness factors of UAE shopping malls from the shoppers' perspective and then to segment shoppers according to these attractiveness factors.Design/methodology/approach – A survey of university staff and principal component factor analysis were used to identify shopping mall attractiveness factors. Segmentation approach using K‐means cluster analysis was also used to segment mall shoppers due to the identified factors.Findings – This study revealed six mall attractiveness factors from the shoppers' perspective: comfort, entertainment, diversity, mall essence, convenience, and luxury. It also arrived at three mall shopper segments, specifically, relaxed shoppers, demanding shoppers, and pragmatic shoppers. Each segment was profiled in terms of mall attractiveness attributes, demographics and shopping behaviour.Research limitations/implications – This study is limited in that it surveyed UAE University staff as shoppers. Thus, findings may not be representativ...

Shopping malls attractiveness: a segmentation approach

Assessment of residents' satisfaction with public housing in Abuja, Nigeria

This paper examines shoppers at two power centres in the U.S.A. to determine why they do or do not engage in cross-shopping within the centre and the demographic and situational characteristics and shopper behaviours which may distinguish the cross-shopper from the non-cross-shopper. The paper also examines the spatial extent of power centre trade areas in order to position this new type of centre within the traditional shopping centre hierarchy. Cross-shoppers are driven by the same motives as shoppers in other centres. The most important reason for not cross-shopping is 'shopping store for a specific item', indicating the importance of destination shopping. Cross-shoppers and non cross-shoppers appear to be a relatively homogeneous group, differing only in terms of gender and travel distance. Trade areas of power centres approach the size of those for regional centres.

Attraction of power shopping centres

In the 1950s and 1960s public housing was built in big central projects. Since 1976 it has been dispersed. The change to smaller projects scattered throughout a city has raised questions about the satisfaction of the residents who have been separated from former neighborhoods of friends, relatives, and often jobs. This study interviewed 160 residents in eight scattered-site public housing projects in Charlotte, North Carolina. Despite relocation, the occupants clearly were satisfied. Their satisfaction was related to an improvement over previous residence, the quality of the dwelling unit, feeling at home in the neighborhood, shortness of time in residence, and overall satisfaction with life. Characteristics of the neighborhood in which residents expressed a high level of satisfaction were the size of the project, access to schools, and presence of “good” people. The neighborhood characteristics creating the greatest dissatisfaction and the greatest differences between the individual scattered-site projects were access to public transportation, shopping and jobs.

Residential satisfaction in scattered-site public housing projects

High interest rates, technology, and the emergence of global capital markets have produced significant changes in the competitive market for financial services. Commercial banks, faced with increased competition from other financial service institutions, began to push for product and geographic deregulation in the early 1980s. Geographic deregulation has made it possible for bank holding companies to acquire banks in other states. The proportion of U.S. commercial banking assets held interstate increased from less than 2% in 1980 to over 15% at the beginning of 1990. Gains in asset control have been concentrated among fewer states than have the losses. Regional interstate banking pacts between states have caused the acquisition fields of banks to exhibit a strong regional character. Interstate banking acquisitions have led to differential growth rates among MSAs in headquartered banking assets, and a diminished share of headquartered assets accounted for by the nation's five largest banking centers.

Geographic deregulation of the u.s. banking industry and spatial transfers of corporate control

Through the use of case studies of Cardiff (UK) and Charlotte (USA) this paper provides a comparative study of the retail structure of British and American cities. Three of the most striking contrasts can be seen in the intra-urban location of retail activity, the role of planned and unplanned shopping centres, and in the amount of retail space provision. Retailing in USA cities tends to be more decentralized, with a greater role for planned shopping centres and more retail space than in British cities. Reasons for this are explored.

J. Dennis Lord

Papers

Attraction of power shopping centres

Residential satisfaction in scattered-site public housing projects

Geographic deregulation of the u.s. banking industry and spatial transfers of corporate control

Comparative retail structure of British and American cities: Cardiff(UK) and Charlotte (USA)

Competition and location strategy in branch banking: spatial avoidance or clustering