The Functional Structure and Central Business District of Lourenco Marques, Mocambique

Blij, Harm J. de

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“…The formulation of this method boosted the research in similar issues, such as the internal structure of the CBD, or the recognition of patterns among central uses in the CBD for one settlement alone, or comparatively among groups of settlements (Davies, 1959(Davies, , 1960Carol, 1960;De Blij, 1962;Gruen, 1965;Bohnert, Mattingly, 1964;Carter, Rowley, 1966;Allpass et al, 1967;Cornière, 1967;Goddard, 1967;Bowden, 1971). The intense use of the CBIM method until the late 1960s characterises the first period of town centre delimitation research.…”

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“…The main weakness of this criterion is that the typology is altered through time or among different towns. Even for a specific town, the formation of such a typology is posterior to the delimitation of its centre; (d) the percentage of central uses area, or frontage per block (Murphy, Vance, 1954;Davies, 1959;Scott, 1959;De Blij, 1962;Bohnert, Mattingly, 1964;Carter, Rowley, 1966;Hartenstein, Staack, 1967;Curtis, 1993;Thurstain-Goodwin, Unwin, 2000). Even if the criterion of central use area is widely supposed as the most objective estimator of centrality, this is not without drawbacks, which will be presented later in detail, as this centrality estimator is widely applied in several methodologies.…”

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A historical overview and critical analysis of town centre delimitation methodologies

Pissourios

2014

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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The article aims at exploring the literature on town centre delimitation methods over the last sixty years. Specifically, the first section explores the content of the term town centre, while the second one proposes an organisation of town centre delimitation research in three main periods. The third section comprises the main corpus of the article, as several town centre delimitation methodologies of the last sixty years are presented and discussed. For their presentation, a three tiered analysis is introduced. In the first stage the decisions of researchers regarding centrality estimators are discussed, in the second stage the study focuses on the choices of the spatial units, in which the chosen variables will be studied, and in the third stage the study discusses the methods that are used to characterise each of the studied spatial units as central versus non-central. Based on the analysis, the article concludes that town centre delimitation is an issue which transcends various scientific disciplines and that each of these disciplines comprehends the centre of a town in a unique way. Thus, future methods of town centre delimitation should take into account the choices made in each of the three stages presented above, and should also link the above choices to the objectives and the theoretical context of the study.

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A historical overview and critical analysis of town centre delimitation methodologies

Pissourios

2014

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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“…The location of the mean point or node of all functions (AFN) and the scatter of the mean points of each function (SJ3s) (Scott, 1959;de Blij, 1962;Limy 1968) reveal to a large extent the locational patterns of the specialized activities in the Central Area. The AFN is located at considerable distance north of the Hub of the Central Area, between Waterloo Street and Queen Street (Fig.…”

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The Characteristics and Locational Patterns of Wholesale and Service Trades in the Central Area of Singapore

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1980

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Sociospatial Transformations in the ‘Postsocialist’ Periphery: The Case of Maputo, Mozambique

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Power

1995

Environ Plan A

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As Mozambique was one of a number of Third World states that embraced Marxism-Leninism during the 1970s, the establishment and subsequent collapse of a socialist development project since independence in 1975 has had profound social, political, and economic consequences. Against these contexts, and through a chronological account which begins with the impacts of Portuguese colonialism and Mozambican nationalist responses, we analyse the contradictory impact of political and economic changes accompanying colonialism, independence, attempted socialist transformation, and the end of socialism in Mozambique as they are mediated through the built environment of the Mozambican capital city of Maputo. The combined political, social, and cultural facets within these transformations and continuities are evident throughout the account and we specify some of the ways in which these are intertwined with the political economy of urbanization. In the conclusion we reconsider what the changing trajectory of Maputo represents in global and comparative terms. We do so with reference to debates about the changing forms of international capitalist regulation and the reconfiguration of dependency.

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The Functional Structure and Central Business District of Lourenco Marques, Mocambique

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A historical overview and critical analysis of town centre delimitation methodologies

A historical overview and critical analysis of town centre delimitation methodologies

The Characteristics and Locational Patterns of Wholesale and Service Trades in the Central Area of Singapore

Sociospatial Transformations in the ‘Postsocialist’ Periphery: The Case of Maputo, Mozambique

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