U.S. Retail Chains In Canada
By Dr. Tony Hernandez, Dr. Ken Jones and Amanda Maze
Dating back to the cross-border exploits...
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Downtown Vitality and the Role of Business Improvement Areas
By Carola Perez, Tony Hernandez and Ken Jones
Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) are geographically defined commercial...
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Canada's Leading Retailers: Latest Trends and Strategies 2002
By Ricardo Gomez-Insausti
This report provides insight into the latest trends and strategies of Canada's top 87 retail corporations. The research reflects the CSCA's on-going focus on corporate strategy, providing...
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Cities In Decline: The Future of Urban Canada
By Jim Simmons
The recently released 2001 Census of Canada reveals that almost half of Canada's cities experienced population decline between 1996 and 2001. How do cities in decline differ...
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Emerging Trends in Fashion Retailing
By Dr. Tony Hernandez and Claire Garvey
This report provides an overview of fashion retailing in Canada. The sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing...
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Residential Property Valuation: An Application of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR)
By Dr. Tony Hernandez, Dr. Maurice Yeates and Dr. Tony Lea
This research letter is the first in a new series...
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Commercial Activity in Canada: 2002
By Dr. Jim Simmons
With this publication, the CSCA continues to monitor the performance of the commercial sector within the Canadian economy. We...
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Retail Sales Trends in Downtown Canada
By Dr. Tony Lea, Dr. Ken Jones and Gleb Bylow
This research letter explores the changing health of major Canadian downtowns during the...
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The Commercial Structure of Canadian Cities
By Dr. Jim Simmons, Shizue Kamikihara and Milena Pagano
For the last several years the CSCA has been exploring the variety of commercial concentrations within Canadian cities,...
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Power Retail: Growth in Canada and the GTA
By Dr. Tony Hernandez, Marco Biasiotto and Dr. Ken Jones
The most striking change to the retail...
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Hot Spots in Canadian Retailing Revisited
By Dr. Ken Jones and Tansel Erguden
This report updates, identifies and interprets the changes in the major...
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Supply Side Segmentation in Canadian Markets
By Dr. Ricardo Gomez-Insausti and Dr. Ken Jones
This research report focuses on the segmentation of Canadian markets from the supply side of the economy in contrast...
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The Location Strategies of Commercial Formats
By Jim Simmons and Gabor Zsigovics
This is the third in a series of papers that describe Canada's national commercial system, which can be defined as the set of all...
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The Status of Retail and Commercial Activity in Smaller Centres
By Dr. Jim Simmons, Dr. Ken Jones and Gleb Bylow
This report describes another exploration into the variation in commercial service provisions across...
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Beijing: The Retail Response to the Economic Reform
By Yinshe Sun
The CSCA has a history of research on the commercial structure of international cities. This paper and a companion study explore the retail structure of Beijing. In...
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Recent Developments in Canadian E-Commerce
By Wieslaw Michalak
The purpose of this report is to review recent trends in Canadian e-commerce in the context of the new economy. To this...
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Visualizing Retail Hot Spots in Canada
By Anita Zelic and Paul Dunphy
Competition plays a major role in shaping the contemporary retail environment. The competitive landscape reflects both the location and distribution of stores and the...
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North American Markets: Predicting Metropolitan Growth and Change
By Dr. Maurice Yeates and Willy Cheng
Which metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada are likely to be 'hot', 'warm' and 'cold' markets during...
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The Economic Impact of Wal-Mart Stores
By Dr. Jim Simmons
Since the WalMart study for CSCA a few years ago (Simmons and Graff, 1998), the question has been raised repeatedly: "What happens to the...
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