• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Urban Structure and Land Use Decisions
  • Beteiligte: Bourne, Larry S.
  • Erschienen: Association of American Geographers, 1976
  • Erschienen in: Annals of the Association of American Geographers
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0004-5608; 1467-8306
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  • Beschreibung: <p>Cities are shaped by numerous decisions, yet urban spatial structure and locational decision-making are seldom linked. A principal components typology of land use change isolates four major processes of change: suburbanization, core area renewal, infrastructure growth, and specialized nucleations. These components identify the key decisions and decision agents involved. Comparative analyses of land use change and of site selection by individual developers in Toronto suggest a three-level hierarchy of locational determinants relating to the choice of site, to both site and context, and to factors apparent only at an aggregate level.</p>