Sphere of Influence

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GCSE Geography Coursework 2007

Finding out the Sphere of influence of a CBD

highstreet and an out of town area

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The sphere of influence of a retail area is how far someone will travel to use the shops and services available there. It is a distance usually measured in miles or kilometers. Different types of retail are will have different sized spheres of influence. For example a place like London attracts customers on a multinational level where as a local high street is likely to have a far smaller sphere of influence. The sphere of influence can be affected by many different factors varying from the range of shops available to the order of the goods sold there. Some factors that affect the sphere of influence are: the range of shops, the range if goods, the infrastructure of the area, the methods of transport that are around the area, the type of people who live nearby, the crime rate and appeal of the area, the order of the goods sold, the local population of the area and the presence of the internet.

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        The range of shops is not only the number of different types of shops but also the size of the shops themselves. Specialist shops will increase an areas sphere of influence where as if all the shops are the same the sphere of influence will decrease. The range of goods is the variety of goods for sale in a retail area. The sphere of influence us likely to be larger if there is a large range of goods. The order of a good is how expensive something is. Low order goods are things we buy on a weekly basis. They ...

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