La especialización del sector minorista de alimentación en Dortmund (Alemania)

Urban retail activities have experimented dramatic changes along the last decades. They are due to the modernization of retail companies and the new habits of consumption and use of the territory. Traditional grocery shops have been more severely damaged, although there is a new trend linked with the retail specialisation. This specialisation offers new perspectives to traditional shops. Furthermore, it can help the renovation of degradated central urban spaces which have suffered the competition against the consolidated commercial High Street and suburban shopping areas.