Beyond the metropolis: new employment centers and historic administrative cities in the Madrid global city region

Romero, Vicente; Solís, Eloy; Ureña, José M. de

doi:10.1080/02723638.2014.939538

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“…Nonetheless, some general statements are possible: if the objective is to detect urban spatial structure, both global and local measures are feasible, whereas sub-centre identification relies only on local measures. Global measures are those that provide information on the degree of (spatial) dispersion, such as Gini coefficients, relative dispersion coefficients, or the global Moran's I, to name only a few (e.g., Adolphson, 2009;Riguelle et al, 2007;Romero, Solís, & Ureña, 2014). Conversely, local measures allow for a site-specific analysis because their objective is to detect local spatial densifications, which are often called sub-centres.…”

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Urban spatial structure: an interaction between employment and built-up volumes

Krehl

2015

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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This paper employs socioeconomic and remote sensing data to develop a novel approach to analysing the morphological urban spatial structure in select German city-regions. Furthermore, the suggested multidimensional procedure facilitates the analysis of the implications of different urban spatial structures in terms of physical urban form. All analyses are conducted on the spatial scale of 1 km² grid cells to allow for spatially detailed results and to account for intra-municipality differences in the urban spatial structures in the study regions. The results indicate fundamental differences among the study regions' distribution of employees and built-up volumes and, as a result, among their urban spatial structures. Both employees and built-up volumes are found to be highly spatially clustered primarily within the core cities but with notable exceptions, which thus qualifies the regions as polycentric. This finding is consistent with prior research but also reveals that built-up volumes can be understood as physical manifestations of proximity advantages to which firms and employees are subject.

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Urban spatial structure: an interaction between employment and built-up volumes

Krehl

2015

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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“…Currently, the industrial space within the global city-regions in western countries has entered the 2 of 26 post-industrialization stage. A large number of scholars have kept a close eye on the phenomenon that the main economic activities such as advanced producer services (APS), knowledge-intensive industries, and innovative industries are reshaping the regional spatial structure in the context of the rise of knowledge economy [8][9][10][11]. However, in the global city-regions of developing countries, industrialization and deindustrialization are going on at the same time [12,13].…”

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Deciphering the Manufacturing Production Space in Global City-Regions of Developing Countries—a Case of Pearl River Delta, China

Liu

Xue

2019

Sustainability

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In the context of economic globalization, the manufacturing production space in the global city-regions of developing countries have presented significant spatial characteristics, attracting attention to the problems of intensive and sustainable development of production space. Taking global city-region in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) as an example, manufacturing production space based on remote sensing (RS) technology and point of interest (POI) data extraction was more precise and continuous, which had more advantages for further analysis of spatial characteristics and influencing factors in multi-scale, and precise policy recommendations. The results show that: (1) under different scales, the distribution characteristics of manufacturing production space and the agglomeration characteristics of spatial form are different. It is not simply extensive agglomeration or diffusion that can accurately explain its diversified spatial characteristics. Meanwhile, for the local manufacturing production space optimization control, the local government should apply advanced experience according to local conditions instead of simply and roughly promotion or containment. (2) Influencing factors show a strong positive correlation with the urbanization rate, the number of foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises and gross industrial production, and which shows a weak negative correlation with fixed asset investment and the employment population. In conclusion, the spatial characteristics of manufacturing production space in global city-regions in developing countries is significantly different from that in Western countries, and its influencing factors have similarities and differences. Therefore, when conducting multi-scale space optimization and sustainable regulation, the government should consider more about the actual multi-scale spatial characteristics of manufacturing production space and its influencing factors instead of copy the Western experience.

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“…Against that background, it is necessary to find further work that focuses on descriptive attributes of urban subcenters such as business profiles, land use patterns, locational characteristics or features of the urban form (e.g., Agarwal, 2015, Flores-Fillol, Garcia-López, & Nicolini, 2016, Romero, Solís, & Ureña, 2014. These contributions indicate that the empirical investigation of urban spatial structure requires more than just analyzing the spatial distribution of employees in metro areas.…”

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Towards a typology of urban centers and subcenters – evidence from German city regions

Krehl

Siedentop

2018

Urban Geography

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This study aims to characterize urban spatial structure with respect to its multidimensionality. Using an encompassing data set of socioeconomic variables, as well as variables pertaining to the built environment, accessibility and land use, we suggest a quantitatively based urban (sub-) center typology. The fine-grained spatial scale of 1 km 2 grid cells permits a higher spatial resolution than that used in most previous studies. Our suggested typology is two-layered: a "macro layer" based on cluster analyses sheds light on urban spatial configurations. A corresponding threshold-based "micro layer" identifies distinctive types of centers and subcenters at the local level. The application of this multi-scale and multivariate typology to four German city regions indicates both the core cities' morphological dominance and the formation of subcenters with distinct profiles of regional economic importance, land use patterns and urban form. However, a substantial degree of spatial dispersion is observed because much activity is located in non-central locations.

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Beyond the metropolis: new employment centers and historic administrative cities in the Madrid global city region

Cited by 25 publications

References 88 publications

Urban spatial structure: an interaction between employment and built-up volumes

Urban spatial structure: an interaction between employment and built-up volumes

Deciphering the Manufacturing Production Space in Global City-Regions of Developing Countries—a Case of Pearl River Delta, China

Towards a typology of urban centers and subcenters – evidence from German city regions

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