The evolution and distribution of the Israeli modern retailers |
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| Authors: | Maria Marinov Lucien Benguigui Daniel Czamanski |
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| Institution: | (1) The Klutznick Center for Urban and Regional Research, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel;(2) Solid State Institute and Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel |
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| Abstract: | This paper is concerned with the structure and dynamics of modern retail facilities in Israel. It presents the first comprehensive
quantitative study of the recent trends in Israeli retail. On the basis of an unique database that includes sizes and locations
of retailers for a number of years, we test and challenge some of the traditional theories, as well as the latest approaches
to the analysis of urban systems. Recent approaches view cities as self-organizing systems and utilize complexity theory and
concepts of order. In the case of Israeli retail application of alternate methods of analysis suggests that the conventional
regularities such as rank-size rule, as is implied by the central place theory or the more general power law do not hold.
The findings reveal that the sizes of modern retailers display an exponential distribution, consistent across time and scale.
This signifies a presence of stable regularity in the structure of retail sizes. Exponential distribution of the retail sizes
is shown to reflect a lack of interdependence between the existing and the planned retail facilities. The issue of order versus
randomness and self-organization in the size distribution of retailers remains debatable and requires further development
of tools and universal criteria for analyzing complex systems. |
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| Keywords: | Modern retailers Size distribution Self-organization Rank-size Power law |
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