commercial centers
Retail hub areas
Commercial centers are areas where business activity concentrates—shopping districts, downtown cores, or purpose-built complexes of retail and office space.
The term encompasses everything from historic market squares to modern malls and business parks.
A city may have multiple commercial centers serving different neighborhoods or purposes: The new commercial center on the highway drew shoppers away from downtown.
- marketplacesVenues for commercial exchange
- shopping mallsLarge enclosed retail centers
- outdoor mallUncovered retail complex
- food courtsShared multi-vendor eating space
- community hubsShared local meeting places
retail stores · business districts · street vendors · wholesale markets · trade zones · bazaars · artisan markets · public spaces · restaurants · financial institutions · plazas · anchor stores · window shopping · trade hubs · arcades · downtown · town square · coworking spaces
commercial centersresidential neighborhoods
Areas where people dwell
residential areas · residential zones · agricultural land · farmland · parkland
commercial centersghost towns
Depopulated former communities
dead zones · undeveloped land · bedroom communities · vacant lots · fallow land
commercial centersoutskirts
Outer parts of town
remote areas · the sticks · periphery · urban fringe · hinterlands