The Geography of City Liveliness and Land Use Configurations: Evidence from Location-Based Big Data in Beijing

Chengyu Li, Mark Wang, Jianghao Wang and Wenjie Wu
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: 武文杰

SERC Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: This paper explores the complexity in the connection between city liveliness and land use configurations for housing and consumption amenities. The sources of this complexity are captured by an integrated spatial and temporal non-stationary modelling approach that uses local linear methods to estimate heterogeneous dynamics of the spatial-temporal process. City liveliness is measured by aggregated space-time human activity intensities using mobile phone positioning data from Beijing. We find that the land use configurations for housing amenities contribute little to city liveliness, whereas consumption amenities play a significant role in attracting human activity intensities. However, such effects vary substantially over space and during a 24-hour life span. These results provide the estimates of the changes in hourly human activity distribution that would influence the form of social engagement, development patterns, and public investment policy.

Keywords: big data; GTWR; local linear estimator; city liveliness; land use; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 P25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-07
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