Spatial Constraint and the Location of Urban Public Facilities

D Hodge and A Gatrell
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D Hodge: Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
A Gatrell: Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1976, vol. 8, issue 2, 215-230

Abstract: The effect of urban spatial form, that is, the size, shape, and arrangement of the residential areas of social groups, on the equitable location of public facilities is analyzed. Three measures of spatial form are introduced, and related to the amount of equity in the benefit distributions associated with the location of a single facility, in nineteen different maps. The effect of the size of the service area is also examined. Results indicate that both spatial form and facility size greatly constrain the flexibility of determining equitable facility locations.

Date: 1976
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DOI: 10.1068/a080215

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