Towards Sustainable Urban Spatial Structure: Does Decentralization Reduce Commuting Times?

Chunil Kim and Choongik Choi
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Chunil Kim: Housing Urban Finance Institute, Korea Housing & Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG), BIFC, 40 Munhyeon-geumyung-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 48400, Korea
Choongik Choi: Department of Public Administration, Kangwon National University, 1, Gangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do 24341, Korea

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, 1-28

Abstract: This paper contributes to the existing debate on the co-location hypothesis, by devising a proximity measure and controlling for a set of other urban form measures. Utilizing the LEHD (Longitudinal Employer–Household Dynamics) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data that provide the number of jobs by a finer geography, this paper measured the degree of centralization, proximity, and job–housing mismatch. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the job–worker proximity leads to a shorter commuting time. In addition, the results focusing on suburban areas revealed that the impact of the job–worker imbalance and the impact of job–worker mismatch on the commuting time are greater in the suburb in comparison with the city center.

Keywords: urban spatial structure; commuting; job–housing ratio; floating catchment area (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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