Changes in the Urban Functional Zones Triggered by the Development of Commercial Services

摘要

The fall of the communist regime and the demise of the bipolar order have led to the development of globalising connections in the urban systems of the Central and East-European states. The main social impact of this complex phenomenon is the expansion of the diffusion area for the of global consumerist goods, entailing the development and the diversification of commercial services. Their localisation is still a direct consequence of financial segregation; the determining agent of the degree of penetration of global consumer goods at local level is the localisation and dispersion of investments. In this context, the article analyses the strategies of localisation and the dispersion factors of commercial services in the Romanian urban system and in its capital city, in particular.