This article uses Sydney as a case study to examine the process of retail decentralization during Australia’s postwar boom, showing how the form and function of capital city retailing changed completely in just a couple of decades. Suburban migration, the emergence of mobile car-driving consumers, socially constructed gender roles, the ongoing importance of public transport networks, planning regimes that sought to concentrate development in designated zones, and business growth strategies that deployed retail formats developed in America all played a role in shaping the form and function of Australian retailing during the postwar boom. In the process, the retail geographies of Australia’s capital cities were transformed from highly centralized distribution structures dominated by the urban core, to decentralized landscapes of retail clusters featuring modern retail forms like the supermarket and shopping center that would come to define Australian retailing for the remainder of the century.

本文以悉尼为例，考察澳大利亚战后繁荣时期零售分权化的过程，展示首府城市零售业的形式和功能如何在短短几十年内发生了彻底的变化。郊区移民、移动驾驶消费者的出现、社会建构的性别角色、公共交通网络的持续重要性、寻求在指定区域集中发展的规划制度以及部署在美国开发的零售业态的业务增长战略都起到了促进作用。在战后繁荣期间塑造澳大利亚零售业的形式和功能方面的作用。在这个过程中，澳大利亚首府城市的零售地理从以城市核心为主的高度集中的分销结构发生了转变，