Beyond Edge City: Office Geography in the New Metropolis

Lang, Robert E.; Sanchez, Thomas W.; Öner, Aslı Ceylan

doi:10.2747/0272-3638.30.7.726

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“…Lang (2003) echoed that perception and introduced the more diffuse concept of "edgeless cities," a kind of scattered development across the post suburban landscape that never obtained the scale, density, and cohesiveness of edge cities. Empirical findings for other metropolitan areas, such as Miami and Philadelphia, further supported this hypothesis (Lang, 2003;Lang et al, 2009). Using employment data for 1980-2000 and indices of centralization and concentration, Lee (2007) also confirmed continuing decentralization tendencies for Portland, Oregon, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.…”

Section: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence Of Postsuburbanmentioning

confidence: 75%

Postsuburban Spatial Evolution of Vienna's Urban Fringe: Evidence from Point Process Modeling

Helbich

Leitner

2010

Urban Geography

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Metropolitan areas today are faced with pervasive changes of their urban spatial structure and are reshaped by postsuburbanization processes. In this study, one example of such postsuburban restructuring, the multinucleated monofunctional clustering of higher-order services, is investigated in the urban fringe of Vienna, Austria. The methodological framework uses microgeographic data for 2006 and applies a case-control point process modeling approach, which accounts for nonstationarity in first-order effects. The results show a relocation of highly specialized firms into the outer metropolitan ring, where these firms provide functional enrichment. This disagrees with the classical notion of a central place hierarchy. The urban fringe thus increasingly conforms to the core city. This spatial functional agglomeration shows statistically significant evidence of a bicentric urban structure, with the two new subcenters located in traditional suburban areas. Accordingly, Vienna's urban fringe is being altered by new postsuburban forms.

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Section: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence Of Postsuburbanmentioning

confidence: 75%

Postsuburban Spatial Evolution of Vienna's Urban Fringe: Evidence from Point Process Modeling

Helbich

Leitner

2010

Urban Geography

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“…However, in its remorseless onward development, the phenomenon of sub-and ex-urbanisation has introduced still newer forms of settlement: the 'edge' and 'edgeless' cities of recent decades. Situated beyond the limits of the erstwhile suburban centres, or straggling along major traffic routes, these new settlement types represent ongoing mutations of the urban-rural hybrid (Kühne 2012(Kühne , 2015lang et al 2013).…”

Section: Southern California the Rise Or Fall (?) Of Suburbia And Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hybrid suburbia: New research perspectives in France and Southern California

Weber

Kühne

2017

Quaestiones Geographicae

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Geographical research on French and US suburbia has concentrated in recent decades on urban sprawl and concomitant processes of devaluation and exclusion. In the case of the French banlieues, with their much-publicised urban riots, this particular analytic focus has become overwhelming, with resultant loss to other developments and perspectives. However, certain districts in the first (or inner) ring of both French and US suburbia are currently showing distinct urbanisation tendencies in planning and architecture, evident in the new usage of brownfield sites and the ongoing demolition, replacement, and rededication of the older building core. Such processes induce population changes, e.g. the displacement of lower in favour of higher income groups. Overall, they result in an architectonic, social and cultural heterogeneity that escapes the specificity of received categories and merits the term hybridisation. The article describes and compares these processes as exemplified in Greater Paris and San Diego (Southern California).

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“…The imbalances emerge because it takes time before constructions can satisfy growing demands for housing entailing prices increase, and when the demands are saturated along with the prices drop the construction activities cannot stop immediately because of past commitments. Hence, the office-housing prices peak periodically [32]; some assume regularity of 10 years [33]. The price cycles of offices and residential housing evolve not simultaneously.…”

Section: Real Estate Cyclesmentioning

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Innovative offices for smarter cities, including energy use and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions

Krozer

2017

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background: Concentration of knowledge work in cities generates innovations entailing economic development. This paper addresses the challenge of turning around the present trend of urban sprawl toward the concentrated knowledge work in cities. The assumption is that dislocation of office and residential housing entailing longer commuting mileage is the main cause of urban sprawl. Methods: The life cycle costs method is used for comparison of office systems. The present offices system is compared to the concentrated mega offices system outside cities, as well as the local and home offices within cities. The life cycle costs are assessed with statistical data on space, materials and energy, and information services. These are the main resources of the offices systems given labor and capital. Results: Commuting costs about 22% of the annual average wage and causes congestion, fragmentation of districts, health risks and pollution. These high costs can be reduced by changes in the office systems. The present office system with commuting adds 40% to the average labor costs. The innovative office systems reduce these costs by 15 to 28% of the present offices. Sensitivity analyses underpin the findings for nearly all urban conditions. The local office systems are particularly cost-effective. The local office system can also save nearly 78% energy and reduce 74% CO 2 emission of the present offices along with less space use. Congestion, as well as fragmentation of communities and nature caused by commuting can be avoided. Conclusions: Some project developers invest in the distributed offices. Policies encourage such investments if they reallocate funds from infrastructure into refurbishing of the available housing and internalize the external effects of land use in the costs of real estate development. These policies increase smartness of cities, reduce energy use, and improve living qualities in cities.

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Beyond Edge City: Office Geography in the New Metropolis

Cited by 48 publications

References 16 publications

Postsuburban Spatial Evolution of Vienna's Urban Fringe: Evidence from Point Process Modeling

Postsuburban Spatial Evolution of Vienna's Urban Fringe: Evidence from Point Process Modeling

Hybrid suburbia: New research perspectives in France and Southern California

Innovative offices for smarter cities, including energy use and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions

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