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Spatial Structure and Urban Growth
1988The ability of activities to compete for sites depends upon whether they have the means to benefit from accessibility and complementarity within the urban framework. But economic conditions, population, other land uses both public and private, and the size of the urban area continually change subjecting the urban land market to forces of perpetual ...
Paul N. Balchin +2 more
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Describing the functional spatial structure of urban environments
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2013AbstractPeople learn the layout of cities mainly through a series of trips. Wayfinders experience the city structure di fferentlydepending on the mode of transport they use. The acquired mental representation then consists of the directly ob-served, physically accessible parts of the city.
Martin Tomko 0001, Stephan Winter 0001
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1979
A great deal of urban economics is not geographical; it is concerned with the production and allocation of urban ‘goods’, such as housing, without being primarily concerned with their location. But some of the most acute problems of cities are concentrated in particular areas or are linked with the location of residences and workplaces.
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A great deal of urban economics is not geographical; it is concerned with the production and allocation of urban ‘goods’, such as housing, without being primarily concerned with their location. But some of the most acute problems of cities are concentrated in particular areas or are linked with the location of residences and workplaces.
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Urbanization and spatial structure in Hungary
GeoJournal, 1994The last four decades have brought fundamental changes in Hungarian urbanization. The number of towns has increased from 54 to 166 and the number of settlements with a population over 100 000 has grown from 3 to 8, and the number of small towns with a population just over 30 000 has increased four times compared to the situation at the beginning of the
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Urban Spatial Structure in a Transitional Economy
Journal of the American Planning Association, 1999Abstract The urban spatial structure of Chinese cities has been changing since the post-Mao economic reform in 1978. More dramatic changes have occurred since the housing reform in 1982 and land reform in 1987. This article examines the transformation of urban spatial structure in China in the context of a transitional economy and its underlying ...
Yeh, AGO, Wu, F
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Urban Spatial Structure and Travel in China
Journal of Planning Literature, 2019This article first provides a critical scoping review of empirical literature on the relationship between urban structure and travel in China. The review finds that residential suburbanization alone increases travel, polycentric development has mixed effects, and jobs–housing balance reduces travel.
Lingqian Hu +4 more
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The effect of urban spatial structure on residential mobility
The Annals of Regional Science, 1982The problem faced by this empirical study is to investigate the relationships between intra-urban migration and spatial urban structure. Using canonical correlation analysis, the main features of the relationships are identified and a measure of the redundancy between the two sets of variables is provided.
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The spatial structure of the urban field
1968This item was digitized as part of a project to share McGill's intellectual legacy with the public. If you are the copyright holder or a relative of the copyright holder who is deceased, you may request withdrawal by emailing escholarship.library@mcgill.ca.
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THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF URBAN ETHNIC ECONOMIES
Urban Geography, 1998Most studies of the economic activity of ethnic and immigrant groups have been conducted with little regard to their spatial conditions and consequences. At the same time, geographic concentration or clustering of residences and businesses is often cited as a significant element in the formation of ethnic economies.
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Income taxes and urban spatial structure
Journal of Urban Economics, 1985Abstract This paper examines the impact of an income tax in a monocentric city where households equilibriate their allocation of time between work, commuting, and leisure. An increase in the income tax rate lowers the implicit value of time, and hence transportation costs.
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