Urban retail dynamics: insights from percolation theory and spatial interaction modelling
| Autor: | Carlos Molinero, Duccio Piovani, Alan Wilson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economics
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| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 10, p e0185787 (2017) |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1703.10419 |
| Popis: | The study of the properties and structure of a city's road network has for many years been the focus of much work, as has the mathematical modelling of the location of its retail activity and of the emergence of clustering in retail centres. Despite these two phenomena strongly depending on one another and their fundamental importance in understanding cities, little work has been done in order to compare their evolution and their local and global properties. The contribution of this paper aims to highlight the strong relationship that retail dynamics have with the hierarchical structure of the underlying road network. We achieve this by comparing the results of the entropy maximising retail model with a percolation analysis of the road network in the city of London. We interpret the great agreement in the hierarchical spatial organisation outlined by these two approaches as new evidence of the interdependence of these two crucial dimensions of a city's life. Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures |
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