Location conditions for the clustering of creative activities in extra-metropolitan areas: Analysis and evidence from Spain

Escalona-Orcao, Ana Isabél; Pérez, Luis Antonio Sáez; García, Belén Sánchez-Valverde

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.12.013

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“…Namely, the increase of biomass in mountainous regions, agricultural intensification in lowlands and expansion of urbanized areas around the main cities in Spain [18] and the overall deforestation and expansion of urban areas in Portugal [19]. Other authors have already studied in detail the expansion of impervious surfaces in the metropolitan areas of both countries [16,26,38], the Mediterranean coast and the main province capitals in Spain [39].…”

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Determinants of Land Use/Cover Change in the Iberian Peninsula (1990–2012) at Municipal Level

Nogueira

Rico

2019

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This work analyzes the determinants associated with main land use/cover changes in the Iberian Peninsula during the 1990–2012 period using a decision tree model. Our main objective is to identify broad-scale patterns that associate the characteristics of geographic areas with the dominant land use/cover change process based on CORINE Land Cover (Coordination of Information on the Environment) and defined in a previously published work. Biophysical, structural and socioeconomic variables were considered as potentially explanatory of the dominant change process at municipal scale. The resulting model allowed identification of a common pattern in Portugal and Spain (urbanization being highly associated to areas already densely populated in the previous period), but also some diverging ones. In particular, dominant trends in Portuguese territory appear to be highly determined by wildfire occurrence. In contrast, Spanish municipalities showed more diverse patterns, usually associated to biophysical determinants like average forest productivity or average terrain slope.

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Determinants of Land Use/Cover Change in the Iberian Peninsula (1990–2012) at Municipal Level

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Rico

2019

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“…As the literature points out, the findings suggest a positive and significant association between indicators of human capital (i.e., the percent of college graduates and foreign-born population) or tolerance (i.e., racial diversity, same-sex households) and the Creative Score (59,73,78). In other words, neighborhoods that are more receptive to the foreign-born population and to same-sex couples are the ones with higher creative scores.…”

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“…The data were collected and aggregated to compute this variable at the census tract level. Second, place quality amenities were included as they attract arts and cultural production and consumption industries(11,46,59). Adopting Grodach et al's list of 19 neighborhood-…”

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The Quest for Creative Industries: A Multilevel National Study of the Impacts of Urban Form on the Geography of Creative Industries

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Creative industries have gained increasing attention in light of the cultural economy as viable magnets for local and regional economic development. Policy makers thus would benefit from attracting creative industries as potential economic boosters. However, it is hard to target such catalyst industries without better knowledge of the urban form conditions that may influence the location preference of these industries; do creative industries favor compact, pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods with transit accessibility to employment? This paper, as one of the first national studies, answers this question using a multilevel modeling approach to control for the socioeconomic and built environment characteristics at both local and regional levels. Factor analysis is used to define a Creative Score, which captures the geography of creative industries using the number of creative firms, employment, the percentage of creative firms, and a creative employment location quotient. The compactness/sprawl index is used at both census tract and metropolitan levels as a proxy for urban form. Accounting for the socioeconomic factors, the findings suggest that, at the neighborhood level, the compactness index is significantly and positively associated with the Creative Score. Every 10% increase in compactness score results in a 0.3% increase in Creative Score at the census tract level. This is partly because compact neighborhoods provide creative industries with a stronger consumer base as a reliable source of development. Compact urban form also serves agglomeration economies by facilitating knowledge exchange, reducing travel time and costs, and giving greater accessibility to destinations by transit.

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“…We have moved from the level of interregional connections to the local level, which involves trips that are made daily or several times a week. The transport infrastructure facilitates the personal contacts of rural and urban, which are still valuable and irreplaceable for rural residents [45]. The mobility is a facilitating factor in social exclusion, which exclusion has been seen to vary across services and facilities-often as a consequence of distance, or individual levels of this mobility [46].…”

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Towards Sustainable Development and Preventing Exclusions—Determining Road Accessibility at the Sub-Regional and Local Level in Rural Areas of Poland

2019

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The improvement in a regions’ accessibility that accounts for various means of inter-regional transport and inter-regional communication is one of the main determinants of sustainable regional development. This study focuses on road accessibility in rural areas where an insufficient number and scope of international and domestic investments can lead to an imbalance in the transport infrastructure. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate road accessibility at the level of the NUTS4 units in view of their sustainable development and their divergence from rural units that are less distant from the main transport routes. The studied area—a province—is situated in the northeast of Poland. Data concerning the travel time, condition, and density of the road network were analysed to develop and compare the measures of road accessibility in individual units and to perform an overall assessment of the NUTS4 units. Partial indices were calculated with the support of the QGIS and ArcGIS software. Peripheral regions in post-socialist countries appear to be particularly underinvested in terms of the transport, including at the local and regional level. The applied methodology supported the presentation of problem peripheral areas that are underinvested and threatened with exclusion.

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Location conditions for the clustering of creative activities in extra-metropolitan areas: Analysis and evidence from Spain

Cited by 20 publications

References 21 publications

Determinants of Land Use/Cover Change in the Iberian Peninsula (1990–2012) at Municipal Level

Determinants of Land Use/Cover Change in the Iberian Peninsula (1990–2012) at Municipal Level

The Quest for Creative Industries: A Multilevel National Study of the Impacts of Urban Form on the Geography of Creative Industries

Towards Sustainable Development and Preventing Exclusions—Determining Road Accessibility at the Sub-Regional and Local Level in Rural Areas of Poland

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