... the Guildhall for Kingston and the County hall for Surrey. Aim: The reasons for carrying out this investigation are to examine shopping patterns, both of people and infrastructure, within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and also to create a hierarchical shopping system, an important geographical principle in settlement, of areas in Kingston upon Thames. I will be using selected different shopping centres, such as a large shopping centre like Bentalls to very small convenience stores, to compare these patterns. For this investigation, I will also be using concepts based upon the establishment of Christallers Central Place theory and its three main principles: range of goods or service, threshold population and the sphere of influence. Hypotheses: 1A shopping centre which contains the greatest number of shops will have a large sphere of influence This is for the reason that larger shopping centres usually tend to provide a variety of goods or ...

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