1st Edition
Managing the Marketplace Reinventing Shopping Centres in Post-War Australia
By Matthew Bailey
Copyright 2020
212 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book charts the history of Australian retail developments as well as examining the social and cultural dimensions of shopping in Australia.
In the second half of the twentieth century, the shopping centre spread from America around the world. Australia was a very early adopter, and produced a unique shopping centre model. Situating Australian retail developments within a broader... Read more
Introduction 1 The prehistory of the shopping centre 2 Suburbanisation, supermarkets and shopping centres 3 Importing shopping centres 4 Scale, enclosure and proliferation 5 The social world of shopping 6 Sub-regional shopping centres and the discount evolution 7 Investment, growth and specialty retail 8 Shopping for entertainment 9 Power and property Epilogue
Biography
Matthew Bailey is a lecturer in the Department of Modern History at Macquarie University with a research interest in urban, business and retail history.
