Identifying changes in the spatial structure of cities is a prerequisite for the development and
validation of adequate planning strategies. Nevertheless, current methods of measurement …

A better understanding of the relationship between the built environment and urban
processes is central in guiding urban processes in more sustainable trajectories. Of …

This paper examines the relationship between street centrality and densities of commercial
and service activities in the city of Bologna, northern Italy. Street centrality is calibrated in a …

'Polycentrism'and 'polycentric development'have become prominent topics of scholarly
debate on urban and regional development and planning in Europe and elsewhere …

Recent years have witnessed the academic interests of researchers in the topic of urban
polycentricity. However, most previous studies have failed to the investigate the fine-scale …

Polycentricity, or the number of central urban places, is commonly measured by location-
based metrics (eg employment density/total number of workers, above a threshold). While …

Polycentrism has gradually become a newly emergent dimension of global urbanization.
Many countries worldwide have tailored plans suited to functional polycentricity, in light of …

A shift from monocentric cities to increasingly polycentric urban regions has been widely
recognised in recent research literature. Although polycentricity in general refers to the …

The network metaphor in the analysis of urban and territorial cases has a long tradition,
especially in transportation or land-use planning and economic geography. More recently …

Empirical research establishing the costs and benefits that can be associated with
polycentric urban systems is often called for but rather thin on the ground. In part, this is due …