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来源

CITIES,Vol.62,P.50-61

语言

英文

关键字

Urban economics; High-tech enterprises; Suburbanization; Multivariate analysis; Mediterranean; URBAN SPRAWL; MEDITERRANEAN CITY; CITIES; GROWTH; ATHENS; MANAGEMENT; REGION; URBANIZATION; OLYMPICS; CONTEXTS

作者单位

[Venanzoni, Giuseppe; Carlucci, Margherita] Sapienza Univ Rome, Dept Social & Econ Sci, Piazzale A Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy. [Salvati, Luca] Italian Council Agr Res & Econ CREA, Via Navicella 2-4, I-00184 Rome, Italy. Carlucci, M (reprint author), Sapienza Univ Rome, Dept Social & Econ Sci, Piazzale A Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy. E-Mail: margherita.carlucci@uniroma1.it

摘要

The relocation of businesses beyond the consolidated city is an important aspect of recent urbanization trends. With economic restructuring driven by suburbanization and counter-urbanization, Southern European metropolitan areas experienced distinct growth patterns compared with north-western Europe. The present study assesses the impact of recent changes in the spatial distribution of businesses on land-use structure, sprawl trends and land consumption in a Mediterranean urban region (Athens, Greece) with the aim to identify economic drivers of sprawl and to inform urban containment strategies. Businesses showed two distinct localization patterns: manufacture, publishing and transport companies, construction and hotels were concentrated in urban municipalities; real estate, finance, high-tech, telecommunication, mining and energy enterprises settled preferentially in suburban municipalities. Dispersed urban expansion mainly reflects the spatial relocation of economic activities with high returns on capital to cheaper land. High-tech enterprises and finance/real estate businesses dominated the economic structure of municipalities with sprawled settlements. Policies securing economic development and a land-saving spatial structure are increasingly required to work towards integrated measures promoting semi-compact metropolitan poles and containing deregulated urban expansion. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.