Fatih Terziis a research assistant in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Istanbul Technical University. He has an MSc degree from the Urban Planning Program at Istanbul Technical University. Areas of interest include housing policy, urban renewal and squatter settlements upgrading. His recent research focused on real estate development -housing and retail -and economic growth.
Hasan Mutluis a city planner who is experienced in GIS software development. For the past 5 years he has provided consultancy services to local government projects on the effective usage of GIS in urban planning and developed a number of urban mathematical models. He is also involved in Real Estate research with a particular focus on offi ce rent rates and land values in Istanbul.
Vedia Dokmeciis a Professor at the Technical University of Istanbul from where she received an engineering / architecture degree, and subsequently gained an MSc and PhD from Colombia University, New York. She has had several articles published in a number of international journals in relation to location theory, hospital planning, urbanization in developing countries, city systems, factory location, community satisfaction, location of library system, hotels and real estate markets in Istanbul. In 1999 she was given Science Award by the Turkish Academy of Sciences.
AbstractAfter 1980s, globalisation and economic restructuring encouraged the growth of the number of shopping centres in Istanbul. As their number increased, retail market became more competitive, which resulted in a vital need to investigate retail potential of new shopping centre locations. This paper investigates the spatial distribution of existing shopping malls and tries to estimate the retail potential of those districts that do not have any shopping centre yet. Of the 32 districts that make up Istanbul, only 16 have shopping malls. Two historical districts and one summer resort area on the islands are excluded from the analysis. A gravity model is applied to determine the retail potential of the 13 remaining districts that do not have shopping centres yet. Income of the districts, distances to the existing and proposed shopping centres and their sizes are taken as variables in the analysis. According to the results of the study, the districts are ranked with respect to their retail potential. Future research investigating the impact of characteristics of shopping malls and demographic characteristics of consumers and distance on the shopping behaviours of customers would add further value to the research.