Regional Shopping Centres: Out-of-Town Versus In-Town Book

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
	Perspectives and issues	2
	Plan of the study	5
2	Shopping Centre Developments	7
	In-town shopping centres	8
	Out-of-town shopping centres	12
3	Shopping Centres of Tyneside	23
	Shopping developments in Tyne & Wear	23
	The Eldon Square shopping centre	24
	The MetroCentre	29
4	Shopping Behaviour and Images	45
	Conceptual models	46
	Shopper characteristics	51
	Retail outlet influences	54
	Shopping behaviour and psychological influences	58
	Impact studies	65
5	The Eldon-Metro Study	70
	Sampling and interviewing methodology	71
	Measurement of shopping centre image	73
	Classification and analysis	76
6	The Two Centres Compared	79
	Comparison of image profiles	80
	Individual attribute ratings	83
	Compliments and criticisms	111
7	Image Structures of the Centres	118
	Principal components analyses	118
	Relationships with overall images	123
	Breakdown of factor scores	129
8	Determinants of Shopper Behaviour	136
	Measures of patronage	137
	Shopping patterns	145
	Determinants of patronage	153
9	Conclusions and Implications	162
	Implications of theory and research	163
	Implications for practitioners	168
	Appendices	174
	Bibliography	194