Urban planning policy has contributed significantly to retailing trends in the city-state and newly industrialising economy of Singapore. The major retailing trends have been the spatial distribution of retailing activities originally concentrated in the Central Area and the development of planned shopping centres. Such retail developments have simultaneously averted decline in the Central Area and promoted the growth of suburban retail centres.
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