eprintid: 2362
rev_number: 4
eprint_status: archive
userid: 151
dir: disk0/00/00/23/62
datestamp: 2006-12-19 12:00:00
lastmod: 2015-07-18 22:37:14
status_changed: 2008-01-09 13:38:04
type: thesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Sarma, A.K.
title: The social logic of shopping: a syntactic approach to the analysis of spatial and positional trends of community centre markets in New Delhi
ispublished: unpub
subjects: 14500
keywords: Shopping, interface of exchange, space syntax, movement, retail mix
abstract: This paper examines Community Centre markets in New Delhi, and proposes that the spatial and configurational properties of the markets as embedded in the urban grid can, in part, explain their social and economic differences. Shopping is considered a social activity, and the choices made by shopper and shop to visit or to locate in a particular area together constitute an ‘interface of exchange’. The paper demonstrates that spatial properties of Choice and Integration inform this ‘interface of exchange’ between shop and shopper, and implicates to-movement, through-movement and the distance at which the urban grid affects such movement as prime influences of this interface. The paper concludes that the nature of movement impacts the category of shops, while the distance from which this movement originates effects the social and economic value attached to the market.
date: 2006-09
date_type: published
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
pages: 58
institution: UCL (University College London)
department: Bartlett School
thesis_type: Masters
citation:        Sarma, A.K.;      (2006)    The social logic of shopping: a syntactic approach to the analysis of spatial and positional trends of community centre markets in New Delhi.                   Masters thesis , UCL (University College London).     Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2362/1/2362.pdf