Geography of Consumer Behaviors & Consumption

Resources

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/readings/consumers.html)

Supplementary Resources:

• Retail Geography
• Electronic Retailing & Distribution Systems
• Market Areas
• Spatial Demand Analysis (Geog.450)

Internet Sites:

• Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Legal Consumer Documents and Links (NWJustice) [http://www.nwjustice.org/beta/law_center/consumer.html]
• Better Business Bureau [http://www.bbb.org/]

Literature:

Andrews, Howard F. Working note on non-spatial consumer behavior. Pub. Info.: [Monticello, Ill., Council of Planning Librarians] 1971. Phy Descript: 43 l. 28 cm. Bibliography: leaves 35-42. [Consumers. Space-in-economics. Council of Planning Librarians. Exchange bibliography 230. Architecture Index/Abstract Z5942 .C68 no.224-231]

Bacon, Consumer Spatial Behavior.

Dudey, Marc, "A Note on Consumer Search, Firm Location Choice, and Welfare," Journal of Industrial Economics, XLI (3), September 1993, 323ff.

Dudey, Marc, "Competition by Choice: The Effect of Consumer Search on Firm Location Decision," American Economic Review, December 1990, 1092ff.

Glaeser, Edward L., Jed Kolko, and Albert Saiz Consumer city J Econ Geogr 2001 1: 27-50. [Abstract] [PDF]

Grantham, Charles and Judith Carr. Consumer Evolution: Nine Effective Strategies for Driving Business Growth. Wiley 2002. [HD30.28 G722. 2002/Suzz]

Hallsworth, Alan G. The New Geography of Consumer Spending, Belhaven Press, 1992 ISBN: 0470-21930-0 $78.95 ( Table of Contents)

Nicosia, Francesco M., Consumer Decision Processes. Pentice Hall 1966.

Sack, Robert David. Place, Modernity, and the Consumer's World: A Relational Framework for Geographical Analysis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1992. [HB801.S23.1992]

Williams, C. C. Understanding the role of consumer services in local economic development: some evidence from the Fens. Environment & planning a MAR 01 1996 v 28 n 3, p.555