The Accessibility City. When Transport Infrastructure Matters in Urban Spatial Structure

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López

No XREAP2010-01, Working Papers from Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)

Abstract: Suburbanization is changing the urban spatial structure and less monocentric metropolitan regions are becoming the new urban reality. Focused only on centers, most works have studied these spatial changes neglecting the role of transport infrastructure and its related location model, the “accessibility city”, in which employment and population concentrate in low-density settlements and close to transport infrastructure. For the case of Barcelona, we consider this location model and study the population spatial structure between 1991 and 2006. The results reveal a mix between polycentricity and the accessibility city, with movements away from the main centers, but close to the transport infrastructure.

Keywords: Urban Spatial Structure; Suburbanization; Decentralization; Transport Infrastructure; Location and Land Use Patterns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2010-02, Revised 2010-02
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