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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese +2 more
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City Retailers’ Perceptions of Competition: A Choice Experiment [PDF]
The increase and expansion of out-of-town shopping centres is often criticized for out-competing retail business within city centres. City retailers’ own perceptions of competition within and between retail districts are here analyzed via choice ...
Lang, Åsa
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Optimising customer support in contact centres using soft computing approach [PDF]
, 2006 This paper describes the research and development of a methodology for optimising the customer support in contact centres (CC) using a soft computing approach.
Tiwari, Ashutosh +2 more
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Leaching Functions from the Outer Metropolitan Zones (Trade, Services) - Increasing Peripherality of Small Towns and Rural Areas [PDF]
Journal of Economics and Management, 2015 Intensive spatial processes taking place around metropolitan areas leads to many economic, structural and social changes in their surroundings. The small towns and rural areas located in the outer zone of metropolitan areas are most affected by this ...
Krystian Heffner, Małgorzata Twardzik
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster +4 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi +6 more
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Retail Concentration and Shopping Center Rents - A Comparison of Two Cities [PDF]
This study aims primarily at testing whether, and to what extent, retail concentration within regional and super-regional shopping centers affects rent levels as well as the differential impact it may exert for various goods categories and sub-categories
Catherine Lavoie +2 more
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Retail Macro-location Factors: Empirical Evidence from the Portuguese Shopping Centres [PDF]
, 2003 Shopping Centres have appeared in Portugal in the beginning of the seventies and have consolidated their presence from the eighties onwards. This study aims to identify the retail macro-location factors that attracts or deters the location of shopping ...
Ribeiro, J. Cadima +3 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
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The mystery of consumer behaviour: market segmentation and shoppers’ choices of shopping centres
, 2001 Shopping centers represent a substantial slice of the UK economy and have rightly attracted considerable research. Despite interest from academics and practitioners, little research attention has been paid to the market segmentation of shoppers ...
Marsland, D, Dennis, C, Cockett, WA
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