Street centrality and the location of economic activities in Barcelona

Porta, Sergio and Latora, Vito and Wang, Fahui and Rueda, Salvador and Strano, Emanuele and Scellato, Salvatore and Cardillo, Alessio and Belli, Eugenio and Cardenas, Francisco and Cormenzana, Berta and Latora, Laura (2012) Street centrality and the location of economic activities in Barcelona. Urban Studies, 49 (7). pp. 1471-1488. ISSN 0042-0980 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098011422570)

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Abstract

The paper examines the geography of three street centrality indices and their correlations with various types of economic activities in Barcelona, Spain. The focus is on what type of street centrality (closeness, betweenness and straightness) is more closely associated with which type of economic activity (primary and secondary). Centralities are calculated purely on the street network by using a multiple centrality assessment model, and a kernel density estimation method is applied to both street centralities and economic activities to permit correlation analysis between them. Results indicate that street centralities are correlated with the location of economic activities and that the correlations are higher with secondary than primary activities. The research suggests that, in urban planning, central urban arterials should be conceived as the cores, not the borders, of neighbourhoods.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:40089
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    May 2012
    Published
    10 November 2011
    Published Online
    Subjects:Fine Arts > Architecture
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Architecture
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:20 Jun 2012 10:05
    Last modified:08 Apr 2024 18:52
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/40089
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