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- Title
The orderliness hypothesis: The correlation of rail and housing development in London.
- Authors
Levinson, David
- Abstract
Network growth is a complex phenomenon. Some have suggested that it occurs in an orderly or rational way, based on the size of the places that are connected. David Levinson examines the order in which stations were added to the London surface rail and Underground rail networks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, testing the extent to which order correlates with population density. While population density is an important factor in explaining order, he shows that other factors were at work. The network itself helps to reshape land uses, and a network that may have been well ordered at one time may drift away from order as activities relocate.
- Subjects
LONDON (England); ENGLAND; TRAFFIC patterns; RAILROAD management; RAILROAD design &; construction; HOUSING development; REAL estate development; POPULATION density; SUBWAYS
- Publication
Journal of Transport History, 2008, Vol 29, Issue 1, p98
- ISSN
0022-5266
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7227/TJTH.29.1.8