Add to ORKGThis doctoral dissertation analyses and discusses the relationship between the spatial distribution of retail and urban form. More precisely, in this work, we focus on the spatial statistical relationships which occur between the localisation of small and average-sized stores and the physical properties of the urban form in the metropolitan area of the French Riviera. The underlying hypothesis of this research is that the physical characteristics of the built-up landscape might influence how humans perceive and use urban space, and, ultimately, how stores are distributed and organised within cities. In the last two decades, scholars have been increasingly investigating this relationship. Nonetheless, both retail and urban form characteristi...