Identification and Characterization of Subcentralities in the Municipality of São Paulo

Rodger Barros Antunes Campos () and André Chagas

No 2017_33, Working Papers, Department of Economics from University of São Paulo (FEA-USP)

Abstract: The monocentric city models have received much criticism as to how representative the pattern is with respect to big cities, as is the case with the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil (the fifth largest city in the world). Theoretical models concerned with multiple centers was brought to the debate on sprawling urban employment. However, empirical methods that identify central places are not a specific aspect in the specialized literature. The purpose of this paper is to identify and characterize the urban employment subcenters (Small Business Districts, SBD) in the Municipality of São Paulo. To this end, we propose a two-step methodology: 1) Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and 2) Spatial Hedonic Prices Model. As a result, we found seven regions that can be considered SBD. These regions are able to impact housing prices as predicted by polycentric theoretical models that are localized in the main nodes of transportation.

Keywords: Urban Economics; Center Business District; Sub-center Business District; Spatial Econometrics. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 R31 R32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-12-13
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