Where is the café? the challenge of making retail uses viable in mixed-use suburban developments

Urban Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 177-195

  Grant, Jill ^a   Perrott, Katherine ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CBCL Limited   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN SOCIETY;

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CITY PLANNING; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE; HEALTH; HISTORY; HOUSING; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFESTYLE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WALKING;

CITY PLANNING; EXERCISE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOUSING; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESTAURANTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUBURBAN HEALTH; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TRANSPORTATION; WALKING;

CANADA;

EID: 78650399261     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098009360232     Document Type: Article

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