The changing commercial structure of non-metropolitan urban centres and vacancy rates

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 382-399

  Yeates, Maurice ^a   Montgomery, Dan ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CIBC Development Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Commercial structure; Non metropolitan; Retail geography; Vacancy rates

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; RETAILING; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; URBAN ECONOMY;

CANADA; ONTARIO;

EID: 0033500168     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1999.tb01396.x     Document Type: Article

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