

@mastersthesis {6436,
	title = {The influences and impacts of hypermarkets on urban commercial land values and land-use succession in their trading areas in {Thailand}{\textquoteright}s cities: {The} case studies of {Chiang} {Rai}, {Lam} {Pang}, {Nakhon} {Sawan}, and {Kampheang} {Petch}},
	year = {2011},
	note = {3472679},
	school = {University of Colorado at Denver},
	type = {phdPh.{D}.},
	address = {Ann Arbor},
	abstract = {The hypermarket business has been introduced to urbanites since 1963 as the place selling a wide range of products with less expensive prices but standard qualities. Nearly 50 years after that, the hypermarket business is dominant among other types of retail businesses. With this domination, the hypermarket business is deemed as the major cause of local businesses{\textquoteright} and supermarkets{\textquoteright} closing out. In the last ten years, the commercial business in Thailand has fallen into the same situation. With only a handful of previous studies in this field in Thailand, this dissertation serves as a trailblazer. The purposes of this dissertation are to investigate impacts of the hypermarket business on commercial land values, to scrutinize its influences on commercial land use succession, and to find types of commercial activities that can co-exist with or severely affected by locating in proximate to a hypermarket store. The two quantitative methods employed to conduct empirical studies in the dissertation are the hedonic pricing regression, and the transition probability matrix. The hedonic pricing regression is used to investigate the hypermarket business{\textquoteright} impact on land values; and the transition probability matrix is used to examine the impact on land-use succession. The four cities selected to study are the cities of Chiang Rai, Lam Pang, Nakhon Sawan, and Kampheang Petch. These four cities are selected based on the suitability and data availability. The empirical analysis of the hypermarket business in the four Thai cities allows the dissertation to offer four conclusions. 1) The presence of the hypermarket business impacts commercial land use and land values. 2) The distance to the hypermarket store impacts commercial land values. 3) The distance to the CBD and the access to the main street impact commercial land values. 4) Local businesses that can co-exist with the hypermarket business are local groceries, automobile-related businesses, health and hygiene businesses, machinery suppliers, electric appliances stores, and sport and entertainment businesses. The findings of this dissertation should be of value to city planners, policy makers, developers, and local business owners in Thailand. Thai planners can develop city plans using the hypermarket business as a tool in order to achieve certain planning goals and objectives. For instance, planners can provide incentives (tax reduction program) to the hypermarket business to build stores in blight areas or unusable lands. At the same time, the planners can develop programs that help local businesses complete with hypermarket stores. Thai policy makers can enact proper policies to control hypermarkets, and to protect local businesses that are severely impacted by the hypermarket business. Thai private developers can establish development projects that are suitable for hypermarkets{\textquoteright} communities. Thai local business owners, recognizing the beneficiary businesses from the hypermarket business, can adapt and modify their stores to the tap spill-over business from a neighboring hypermarket store. Broadly perceived by Thais, the hypermarkets impact in Thailand is crucial. The impact urgently needs extensive attentions and appropriate solutions. By understanding the benefits from the dissertation{\textquoteright}s findings and applying these benefits in proper ways, city planners, policy makers, private developers, and local business owners together can create a win-win situation to Thai communities.},
	keywords = {0341:Area Planning and Development, 0505:Economics, 0999:Urban planning, Area Planning and Development, Commercial land use, economics, Hypermarkets, Land use succession, Social sciences, Thailand, Urban planning},
	url = {http://search.proquest.com/docview/890229354?accountid=14270},
	author = {Sakhakara, Kollawat}
}
