International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management: Volume 35 Issue 8

Commemorating the life and work of Professor Ross Davies, 1940‐2005

Jonathan Reynolds, Michelle Lowe

To introduce a commemorative collection of articles by colleagues and former students of the late Professor Ross Davies, a leading UK academic in the field of retail management.

Balance and partnership in retail planning

Stuart Hampson

To set out the discussions surrounding the development of retail planning policy in the UK over a 20 year period, and the consequences for shoppers, retailers and developers.

The role of quarters in large city centres: a Mancunian case study

David Bennison, Gary Warnaby, Dominic Medway

The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the development, role and management of quarters in UK cities.

Rethinking Southampton and town centre futures

Michelle Lowe

Designed to update research work carried out in the early 2000s on the development and impacts of Southampton's West Quay retail development on the urban milieu of the city.

Perspectives on retail format innovation: relating theory and practice

Jonathan Reynolds, Elizabeth Howard, Christine Cuthbertson, Latchezar Hristov

Neither retail formats nor business models are static entities. Retailers develop new formats, manage existing formats and discard formats over time, as a consequence of many…

New shopping centres: is leisure the answer?

Elizabeth Howard

Consumers are spending more on leisure, and retailers and shopping centre developers are seeking ways to make shopping more of a leisure pursuit. This paper deals with the…