Buying and selling goods and services is an enlivening factor and makes a territory attractive. It is also a major asset for bringing vitality and animation to city centres.
In a context where commercial practice is undergoing major transformations, consumers have new expectations and the legal regulations on urban retailing are unclear, the question of how to organise commerce is essential to enable trading to be visible and for its evolution to be directed.
The data available at the present time on the scale of the Parisian conurbation is still scattered, incomplete and non-consolidated.
As the fruit of work undertaken in 2010 by Apur, IAU île-de-France and the City of Paris, this study proposes an initial overview of commerce in the Parisian conurbation and in Paris itself. It uses an approach which compares London and Paris thus opening reflection on a wider basis. This can be shared with all the conurbation's municipalities and encourage durable development within the metropolitan territory.
Contents
- Introduction
- The main trends of commercial evolution
- The commercial offer
- Local traders
- Tourism, leisure and commerce
- Surface areas authorised under commercial development commissions since 2005
- Commercial facilities projects
- Commerce in the conurbation of Paris and Greater London
- Conclusion