1989
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Alain Metton, « Centre-ville et périphéries. Complémentarité ou concurrence commerciale ? (City center and suburban centers. Retail complementary or competition ?) », Bulletin de l'Association de Géographes Français (documents), ID : 10.3406/bagf.1989.1490
. - For quite a long while, the french scheme of urban retail distribution has been governed by the effects of centrality introducing a progressive deterioration of retail outlets from the centre towards the periphery. The retail revolution of the 70' s induced a suburban retail dynamism which for some time restricted itself to the role of a retail distribution complementing the role of the city centre. Since fifteen years, the important changes induced by the creation of pedestrian areas and the opening of big retail centres into the retail distribution system of the city centre, altogether with the alterations of suburban retail outlets, have given rise to a intricate situation of competition, thus bringing to ruin neighbourhood retail outlets.