Many forces threaten the viability of town centers. One of them
is trade concentration in which family businesses are replaced by
large, vertically integrated retail enterprises. Town centers, once
locations of a rich variety of street stores in the hands of a
local and independent merchant community, are being supplanted by
monolithic and decentralized commercial zones. This process is
documented in contemporary Germany for two towns, one grounded in a
market economy and the other, until recently, socialistically
based. In both cases, trade concentration is a prevailing force-- a
pattern that is not only found in post-industrialized nations, but
also in developing countries in Latin America and Asia and is
indicative of an emerging global culture.
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