5. Application of the Lowry Model of Urban Structure to Toronto

Harper, P.

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“…before 1963) whenever possible. Most therefore derive from the 1956 and 1961 censuses or from special tabulations carried out for 1963 (for land use) or 1964 (travel times, employment), and analyses based on these data (Harper, 1973;MacKinnon and Lau, 1973 Note: Those variables obtained by aggregation of census tract data into the 62 zones are weighted averages or percentages.…”

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On the complexity of urban land use change: Or, what theoretical models leave in the dust

Bourne

1978

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PREFACEThis paper represents a revision of and extension to Research Paper No. 80, published previously in this series. It undertakes to bring together aif f erent empirical approaches to the analysis of the changing spatial structure of urban land use, and at the same time to document the limitations of current theoretical models of urban land use. The paper concludes with suggestions on data needs and on necessary extensions to dynamic land use models. ABSTRACTThe essence of theory is simplification. Too often, however, that simplification is myopic, and itself becomes the basis of a new image of reality. Urban land use theories are one example.Their view of a timeless monocentric and featureless city composed of utility-maximizing robots and single commodity firms, whose actions are uninhibited by public values or policy cons~raints, bears increasingly little resemblance to the modern complex multidimensional and highly political urban landscape.The purpose of this paper is three-fold: to review some of the deficiencies of current theoretical and planning models; to document, empirically, the complexity of urban land use structure and change;and to outline a framework for a continuing research effort at analyzing macro and micro-level processes of land use change.

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On the complexity of urban land use change: Or, what theoretical models leave in the dust

Bourne

1978

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5. Application of the Lowry Model of Urban Structure to Toronto

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On the complexity of urban land use change: Or, what theoretical models leave in the dust

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