Collins, MP;
(2024)
The emergence of a shopping centre hierarchy in South London during the nineteenth century.
History of Retailing and Consumption
, 10
(3)
pp. 242-273.
10.1080/2373518X.2024.2430130.
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Abstract
This article examines the changing relationship between urban population growth and the size, composition, functions and ranking of shopping centres in South London during the nineteenth century. It addresses some of the methodological issues that arose in previous studies of nineteenth-century retailing in England and Wales. The fifteen largest shopping centres have been ranked using the mean of the respective scores of their eight functional variables. Regression analysis has been used to examine the changing relationship which existed between urban population and the size, composition, and functions of shopping in 1824, 1872 and 1901. This analysis suggests that the hierarchy of shopping centres in South London was a linear continuum rather than a stepped-liked structure. It shed light on significant changes in the number of retail and commercial properties in the shopping centres. Some 68 of these centres are classified as either metropolitan (4) major (16) central area zones (3) and district (45) in the 2021 London Plan.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The emergence of a shopping centre hierarchy in South London during the nineteenth century |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/2373518X.2024.2430130 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/2373518x.2024.2430130 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | Urban history and informatics, South London, shopping centres, hierarchy, department stores, co-operatives, regression analysis, data visualisations |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10211757 |
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