L'espace commercial des aménageurs et l'espace commercial de l'usager, apport d'une méthode désagrégée

摘要

Users and regional planners' commercial space. Contribution of disaggregated methods. — What impact to changes in the distribution forms of commercial goods have on the spatial behaviour of consumers ? A partial answer to this question may be found through the use of a "disaggregated" method, i.e., one which takes the individual as analytical base. Results presented here show that environmental influences do not have the same impact on all individuals within a particular social group. Changes in the supply of goods and services, in fact, evoke diverse and selective responses from individuals, depending on their levels of mobility and their shopping strategies. This quasi-experimental method allows one to detect not only those individuals who are most vulnerable to the impact of change, but also to discern adaptive mechanisms which people use with respect to supply and demand for goods and services.