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Residential structure of midwestern cities
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In this paper, a model of American urban residential patterns is presented to reflect construction cycles and transport eras, which can be verified with census housing data and is consistent with sector, ring, and neighborhood concepts, and with distance-density decline models of urban spatial organization.Abstract:
In studies of the spatial patterning of American urban land uses, the sector, ring, and neighborhood concepts persist because each describes the distinctive outcome of a separate spatial process. Sectors depend on the narrow urban images which housing consumers use when selecting a new residence. Housing producers create a concentric ring increment to the urban housing stock in each boom of the building cycle. Extended boom periods produce wide rings, short booms yield narrow rings, and border zones between rings reflect recession lulls in new construction. The intraurban transport technology that prevails during each building boom controls the areal density of new dwelling units and the shapes of new residential areas. A model urban residential pattern, generated to reflect construction cycles and transport eras, can be verified with census housing data and is consistent with sector, ring, and neighborhood concepts, and with distance-density decline models of urban spatial organization.read more
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Urban Form, Energy and the Environment: A Review of Issues, Evidence and Policy:
TL;DR: The spatial configuration of cities and its relationship to the urban environment has been the subject of empirical, theoretical and policy research as discussed by the authors, and because of the disciplines involved, it has attracted much attention.
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Factors influencing light-rail station boardings in the United States
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used multiple regression to determine factors that contribute to higher light-rail ridership in low-density, automobile-oriented, polycentric US cities with smaller downtowns.
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Hoyt, H. 1939: The structure and growth of residential neighborhoods in American cities. Washington, DC: Federal Housing Administration:
TL;DR: The book that has had the most enduring influence on my thinking, teaching and research in urban geography is Homer Hoyts The Structure and Growth of residential neighborhoods in American cities as mentioned in this paper.
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Transport Shaping Space: Differential Collapse in Time–Space
TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examine the role of transport in shaping space and consider the differential collapse in time-space resulting from a succession of transport innovations over 200 years, assessing effects of cheaper and faster transport on spatial development at local, national and international levels, effects of intermodality on land/sea transport systems and impacts of fixed links in removing transport barriers.
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