Journal: Urban Studies

Abbreviation

Urban Stud.

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SAGE

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0042-0980
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  • Do rising rents lead to longer commutes? A gravity model of commuting flows in Ireland
    Item type: Journal Article
    Ahrens, Achim; Lyons, Sean (2020)
    Urban Studies
    The classical monocentric city model suggests that property prices decrease and transport costs rise with distance to the urban centre, implying that employees face a trade-off between long commutes and high housing costs when making location decisions. Accordingly, some commuters might be forced to take on longer commutes due to rising rents in central locations. In this study, we investigate empirically whether the rental differential between employment centres and residential areas predicts changes in average commuting times. To this end, we consider a gravity model of commuting flows for Ireland over 2011–2016. We present results for Ireland and the metropolitan area of Dublin, which constitutes the largest commuting region in Ireland. The results imply that a 10% rise in rents in employment centres is associated with an up to 0.6 minute rise in one-way daily average commuting times nationally (about 2.2% of the average commute duration).
  • Valuing the Benefits of Urban Regeneration
    Item type: Journal Article
    Tyler, Peter; Warnock, Colin; Provins, Allan; et al. (2013)
    Urban Studies
  • Towards a new vocabulary of urbanisation processes: A comparative approach
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schmid, Christian; Karaman, Ozan; Hanakata, Naomi C; et al. (2018)
    Urban Studies
  • 'A Tall Storey ... but, a Fact Just the Same'
    Item type: Journal Article
    Jacobs, Jane M.; Cairns, Stephen; Strebel, Ignaz (2007)
    Urban Studies
  • Thinking through people: The potential of volunteered geographic information for mobility and urban studies
    Item type: Journal Article
    Blair Howe, Lindsay (2021)
    Urban Studies
    Despite the ‘mobility turn’ in urban studies, there is surprisingly little research into the role people’s everyday movements play in driving urbanisation processes. As this paper discusses, one reason this has not occurred is because understanding this relationship requires both quantitative and qualitative knowledge, including geospatial locations and patterns as well as why people choose to move the way they do. Few studies employ mixed methods to this end; instead, many quantitative approaches focus on the use of big data and many qualitative approaches remain focused on sites themselves rather than the movements between them. This methodological gap can preclude operationalising findings and proves particularly detrimental when research is conducted into areas with high levels of poverty and inequality. In response, this paper presents a mixed-methods approach to studying urbanisation, using volunteered geographic information (VGI) to map regional-scale movements in the Gauteng City-Region (GCR). Exploiting the potential of smartphone technology, this methodology operates at the interstice of quantitative and qualitative research, describing both macro-scale mobility patterns and the micro-scale decisions behind them. Using the case study of the GCR, it highlights movement as a strategy for those living in poverty, who can utilise the entire region as a resource to subvert entrenched inequality. ‘Thinking through people’ suggests that a new ontology of categories describing urbanisation processes in terms of movement could connect empirical research into poverty and inequality to theory, and be used to create an epistemology of the urban from below. Thus, this paper contributes to advances in urban studies methods as well as to debates on urbanisation, relational poverty and socio-spatial inequality.
  • Revealing centrality in the spatial structure of cities from human activity patterns
    Item type: Journal Article
    Zhong, Chen; Schläpfer, Markus; Müller Arisona, Stefan; et al. (2017)
    Urban Studies
  • Understanding unlikely successes in urban violence reduction
    Item type: Journal Article
    Hoelscher, Kristian; Nussio, Enzo (2016)
    Urban Studies
  • Strategies of cities in globalised interurban competition: The locational policies framework
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kaufmann, David; Arnold, Tobias (2017)
    Urban Studies
  • Geographies of somewhere
    Item type: Journal Article
    Axhausen, Kay W. (2000)
    Urban Studies
  • Between Walls and Fences: How Different Types of Gated Communities Shape the Streets around them
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kostenwein, David (2021)
    Urban Studies
    Gated communities in Latin American cities have become the new normal. The streets bordered by fences, walls and the occasional gate, formed when two or more gated communities face each other, dominate the urban landscape today. In this Urban Studies article, taking Bogotá with its 3500 gated communities as a case study, CSS’ PhD candidate David Kostenwein creates a novel typology focusing on the gated community’s spatial dimension, not portraying it as an isolated island but as an integral part of the urban realm.
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