Spatial Transformation of Metropolitan Cities

Fang Wei and Paul L Knox
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Fang Wei: Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA
Paul L Knox: Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

Environment and Planning A, 2015, vol. 47, issue 1, 50-68

Abstract: This study investigates the relationships between neighbourhood change and spatial transformation in the North Carolina Piedmont region between 1980 and 2010. The dominant patterns of neighbourhood change, on the one hand, conform to some classical models of metropolitan structure, and, on the other hand, provide new insights on what has been ignored by those models. Trajectories of neighbourhood change reflect both persistent segregation and increasing diversification. A detailed analysis of trajectories of neighbourhood change points to interesting patterns in both central-city and suburban ecological succession and transformation.

Keywords: neighbourhood change; spatial transformation; succession and transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1068/a46278

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