Regional Markets
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@@ -25,9 +25,19 @@ Regional Markets covers where we look. This category holds the covered market se <!-- END-START-HERE-HIGHLIGHT --> ## Where to start Eighty-two pages sit in this category, most of them individual market profiles. These five orient the whole set: what a Regional Market is, how markets are classified, and the two continental qualifying sets. The country pages below are the way into the profiles themselves. - [[about-regional-markets-system|Regional Markets Intelligence System]] — The reference article for the co-location analysis system behind the covered market set. - [[regional-market-definition|Regional Market definition]] — What qualifies a settlement as a Regional Market, and why coverage is not market strength. - [[co-location-tier-system|Co-location tier system]] — The four-tier classification assigned to every cluster, and how it applies across both continents. - [[atlas-top-400-north-america|The Top 400 — North America]] — 400 markets published from a 1,121-market qualifying pool across three countries. - [[atlas-top-400-europe|The Top 400 — Europe]] — 400 markets published from a 650-market qualifying pool across fifteen countries. ## Coverage Methodology [[about-regional-markets-system|Regional Markets Intelligence System]] is the reference article for the co-location analysis system, and [[regional-market-definition|Regional Market Definition]] sets out what qualifies a settlement as a Regional Market on the map. The [[co-location-tier-system|Co-location Tier System]] explains the four-tier classification and how it applies across North American and European markets. The three reference articles behind the covered market set: the co-location analysis system itself, what qualifies a settlement as a Regional Market on the map, and the four-tier classification applied across North American and European markets. <!-- AUTO-GENERATED MEMBERSHIP: DO NOT EDIT BELOW — regenerate from index_group: coverage-methodology --> - [[about-regional-markets-system]] — Reference article for the co-location analysis system that identifies suburban retail markets in North America and Europe. @@ -37,7 +47,7 @@ Regional Markets covers where we look. This category holds the covered market se ## The Top 400 Markets [[atlas-top-400-north-america|The Top 400 — North America]] and [[atlas-top-400-europe|the Top 400 — Europe]] are the two qualifying sets: four hundred markets per continent that meet the co-location anchor-composition gates. Europe draws its four hundred from a 650-market qualifying pool across fifteen countries; North America draws its four hundred from a pool of 1,121 across three. No rank or score is published for any market in either set. Both pages were rebuilt on 2026-09-06 against the confirmed 2026-08-07 dataset. The two qualifying sets: four hundred markets per continent that meet the co-location anchor-composition gates. Europe draws its four hundred from a 650-market qualifying pool across fifteen countries; North America draws its four hundred from a pool of 1,121 across three. No rank or score is published for any market in either set. Both pages were rebuilt on 2026-09-06 against the confirmed 2026-08-07 dataset. <!-- AUTO-GENERATED MEMBERSHIP: DO NOT EDIT BELOW — regenerate from index_group: the-top-400-markets --> - [[atlas-top-400-north-america]] — The 400 North American Regional Markets published from a 1,121-market qualifying pool under the 2026-08-07 dataset — 298 United States, 56 Canadian, 46 Mexican. No rank or score is published. @@ -95,49 +105,20 @@ read a region at a time as coverage grows. 57 individual market profile pages exist today (EN+ES pairs), each with population and economic context sourced from Wikipedia. **The two lists below are under reconciliation and should not be read as current.** They were drawn up against 32 of the 57 profiles and have not been rebuilt since the confirmed 2026-08-07 dataset was adopted: five entries listed as verified are no longer in that dataset, six listed as reference-only now are, and the Greek, Croatian, and Norwegian profiles added since appear in neither list. **The country tables are the authoritative view of what is published**; each profile page states its own position. The lists are kept here because the distinction they draw is a real editorial one, but the sorting is being redone. Each profile page states its own position: a published entry in the Top 400 set, a metropolitan reference point that other entries are measured against, or a market that did not qualify on anchor composition. No rank or score is published for any entry. **The country tables are the authoritative view of what is published.** **Verified TOP400 entries:** no rank or score is published for any entry; list order is alphabetical by profile slug, not ordinal. Two hand-maintained lists previously drew that published/reference-only distinction on this page. They covered 32 of the 57 profiles, were never rebuilt after the confirmed 2026-08-07 dataset was adopted — five entries listed as verified had left that dataset, six listed as reference-only had entered it, and the Greek, Croatian, and Norwegian profiles appeared in neither — and were removed on 2026-09-06 rather than left standing as a stale second view of the country tables. The distinction itself is real, and is carried by the country tables and by each profile page. [[us-sc-greenville-spartanburg|Spartanburg, SC]] is a known inconsistency in the source data: it appears in the North American Top 400 table while the profile page describes Spartanburg as a metropolitan reference point rather than a ranked entry. The question sits with the dataset, not this page. | Market | Continent | |---|---| | [[us-tx-plano|Plano, TX]] | North America | | [[ca-on-mississauga|Mississauga, ON]] | North America | | [[us-tx-frisco|Frisco, TX]] | North America | | [[us-sc-greenville-spartanburg|Spartanburg, SC]] | North America | | [[us-az-tempe|Tempe, AZ]] | North America | | [[us-ca-torrance|Torrance, CA]] | North America | | [[us-ut-provo-orem|Provo, UT]] | North America | | [[us-la-kenner|Kenner, LA]] | North America | | [[us-mn-eagan|Eagan, MN]] | North America | | [[se-jarfalla|Järfälla]] | Europe | | [[gb-eng-york|York]] | Europe | | [[gb-eng-warrington|Warrington]] | Europe | | [[gb-eng-cherwell|Cherwell]] | Europe | | [[gb-eng-northampton|Northampton]] | Europe | | [[pl-bielsko-biala|Bielsko-Biała]] | Europe | | [[gb-eng-chester|Cheshire West and Chester]] | Europe | **Reference-only profiles** — real places recorded as not currently part of the TOP400 set: either metropolitan reference points that other entries are measured against, or markets that did not qualify on anchor composition. Each profile page states its own position rather than presenting a market outside the set as if it were included. North America: [[ca-ab-lethbridge|Lethbridge]], [[ca-bc-kelowna|Kelowna]], [[ca-nb-moncton|Moncton]], [[ca-on-barrie-innisfil|Barrie–Innisfil]], [[ca-sk-regina|Regina]], [[us-co-colorado-springs|Colorado Springs]], [[us-co-fort-collins|Fort Collins]], [[us-ks-wichita|Wichita]], [[us-wa-spokane|Spokane]], [[us-wi-madison|Madison]]. Europe: [[es-ar-zaragoza-secondary|Zaragoza]], [[es-cl-burgos|Burgos]], [[es-cl-valladolid|Valladolid]], [[es-nc-pamplona|Pamplona]], [[es-pv-vitoria-gasteiz|Vitoria-Gasteiz]], [[gb-sct-inverness|Inverness]]. **Archived:** the seven German city profiles, Chambéry (France), and Breda (Netherlands), together with their three country index pages. Germany, France, and the Netherlands are outside the current Regional Markets methodology, so these markets are no longer covered. Their slugs redirect here.