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In 2017, the Brussels-Capital Region 20 700 points of sale for goods and services, accounting for 87 % of the expenditure made by the inhabitants of Brussels. This retail trade provides about 9 % of regional employment. This synopsis reviews what is known about distribution in Brussels, an indispensable economic sector whose complexity makes it difficult to understand due to its diversity, and which is subject to profound changes in consumption, the urban environment and the internal organisation of the profession. After outlining the framework of the analysis by defining trade through its functions, forms and stakeholders, the authors draw up several observations associated with major dynamics in the sector (transformation of supply and demand and changes in public regulation in particular). The third part of the synopsis responds to these observations by identifying clear issues which, if taken into account by the sector and supported by public authorities, could reconcile trade with urban space.

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From the 1960s, actors of retailing have diversified. Besides independent traders, who until then had little competition, large distribution groups have emerged and developed. Commercial real estate operations, increasingly important in size, become more complex and require new operators such as commercial developers. Francophone geographers, especially in Belgium, have followed these evolutions, which was not without upheaval in the investigation methods., SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Cette contribution vise à mettre en évidence, sous l’angle de la géographie urbaine, les différentes fonctions socio-économiques remplies par le centre-ville. Elle souligne d’abord les grands traits de ce qui, en Europe, singularise le centre-ville du reste du tissu urbain. Cela permet de comprendre le poids de l’héritage initial d’une centralité, antérieure à la révolution urbaine, qui fait que les centres-villes sont restés jusqu’à nos jours, des lieux de concentration des principales fonctions urbaines, malgré la délocalisation en périphérie d’une partie de la population, des commerces et des services. Ensuite, un bref inventaire des fonctions socio-économiques du centre-ville souligne sa grande diversité puisque fonction résidentielle, activités administratives, commerciales ou de service public et offre touristique et de loisir y coexistent. Cette diversité engendre une co-présence de différents utilisateurs, selon des temporalités variables. La stratification spatiale, souvent plus verticale qu’horizontale, est dès lors complexe et nuancée :ces coexistences de fonctions induisent certes des rétroactions positives, mais aussi des conflits d’usage et des concurrences, traduites notamment par le marché foncier., info:eu-repo/semantics/published

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