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- Title
The Location of Urban Land Uses: A Reply.
- Authors
Stebelsky, Ihor
- Abstract
Orderly arrangements of urban land uses in American cities have been formally conceptualized for several decades. Recently Louis K. Loewenstein attempted to test one aspect of the spatial arrangement of urban land uses. In his pioneering endeavor the crucial step was the selection and translation of cartographic information into numerical terms for the purpose of statistical testing. Two basic weaknesses in Loewenstein's method detract from the proof of his conclusion. Firstly, no urban activity may be correlated precisely with any one particular urban land use. Secondly, answers to questions regarding the meaning or the interpretation of the land use pattern described by the "index of concentration" remain buried in his footnote references. The index of centralization, however, contains a spatial variable in its computation. It measures the extent to which the aggregate distribution of the subject variable, such as a selected land use, tends to be located at the center of the concentric circles on the one end of the gamut or at the periphery of the outermost circle on the other.
- Subjects
UNITED States; URBAN land use; CARTOGRAPHY; REAL estate business; DECENTRALIZATION in management; LOEWENSTEIN, Louis; URBAN economics; CITIES &; towns
- Publication
Land Economics, 1967, Vol 43, Issue 2, p232
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3145248