Contesting Mexico City’s alleged polycentric condition through a centrality-mixed land-use composite index

Jorge Montejano Escamilla, Camilo Caudillo Cos and José Silván Cárdenas
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Jorge Montejano Escamilla: Centro de Investigación en Geografía y Geomática ‘Ing. Jorge L. Tamayo’, A.C., Mexico
Camilo Caudillo Cos: Centro de Investigación en Geografía y Geomática ‘Ing. Jorge L. Tamayo’, A.C., Mexico
José Silván Cárdenas: Centro de Investigación en Geografía y Geomática ‘Ing. Jorge L. Tamayo’, A.C., Mexico

Urban Studies, 2016, vol. 53, issue 11, 2380-2396

Abstract: We examine Mexico City’s urban structure through a composite index by combining two previously existing metrics: one derived from the Urban Network Analysis tool (UNA), recently published by MIT researchers, and the other, using an Entropy Index, which in essence, represents the mixed land-use degree. The proposed composite index embodies a different approach from previous methods reported in the literature because it uses disaggregated data at the unit level, performs weighted cluster calculations through a network data set, and incorporates a mixed land-use metric. This method was developed in order to test if the urban arrangement showed signs of a polycentric condition under a particular centrality standpoint. We observed that Mexico City has a relatively weak polycentric urban condition.

Keywords: Mexico City; network analysis; polycentric urban form; urban centrality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098015588685

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