Mapping the landscape of urban work: Home-based businesses and the built environment

Kane, Kevin; Clark, William A. V.

doi:10.1177/0308518x18762131

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“…Many small-sized establishments with less than five employees locate in single-family residential areas, and small-sized establishments make up a large portion of the entire dataset. This notable finding highlights a new aspect of a start-up's location choice because residential areas are studied mostly for the residence rather than the workplace [60]. As a result, business location theory does not examine residential areas as a possible site for opening up businesses because of the traditional perspective of "Home/Work Separation" dichotomy [61].…”

Section: Demographic Environmentmentioning

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Location Choice of New Business Establishments: Understanding the Local Context and Neighborhood Conditions in the United States

Chin

2020

Sustainability

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With the continuing shift toward e-commerce, physical business locations with a brick-and-mortar presence become an endangered element of urban fabric, land use, and the local economy. City governments and local municipalities have created and implemented a variety of strategies and incentives to stimulate new business activity within their jurisdictions. A policy of enhancing the business climate is productive in some regions but not in others. To understand these variations in outcomes, this research focuses on examining the relationship between the uniqueness of certain regions, spatially bounded characteristics, and how both affect where new establishments locate. A two-level model is introduced to employ the census tract as a spatial unit of analysis and analyzes new establishments within 27 medium-sized metropolitan statistical areas in the United States. That quantitative model allows this study to determine key regional and neighborhood factors, as well as the existence of previously unmeasured factors, influencing location decisions of new establishments. The results of this study confirm the importance of economic, demographic, and geographic conditions at the neighborhood level, providing a better understanding of the vulnerability of the local economy.

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Section: Demographic Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Location Choice of New Business Establishments: Understanding the Local Context and Neighborhood Conditions in the United States

Chin

2020

Sustainability

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“…These factors, amongst others, have contributed to the practice of working from home and the emergence of collaborative working spaces such as coworking spaces. This means that we need to think of residential neighbourhoods not purely as places to live but also as places of work and the location of micro-business activities (Ekinsmyth, 2013; Folmer, 2014; Kane and Clark, 2019; Reuschke and Houston, 2020). It is likely that the emergence of new workspaces changes the nature of their surrounding areas, for example through the attraction of more day-time population or a shift in residential composition.…”

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New spatialities of work in the city

Reuschke

Ekinsmyth²

2021

Urban Studies

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This introduction discusses the objectives and concepts underlying the Special Issue on the new spatialities of work in the city. It highlights the urban impact of both the changing spatiotemporal working patterns and the increased diversity of workspaces that have resulted from post-industrial restructuring, globalisation, labour market flexibilisation and digitisation. Even pre-COVID-19, when the research in this Special Issue was undertaken, this impact on the urban structure and the social fabric of cities was significant, but it had remained underexplored. Here, therefore, we question models of work and commuting that continue to assume the spatially ‘fixed’ workplace, and explore how new understandings of workspace and multi-locality, developed in this Special Issue, can inform future research. This, we argue, is more important than ever as we come to understand the medium- and long-term impacts of pandemic-altered work practices in cities. We further argue that the spatialities of work need to be connected with research on health, job quality and wellbeing in cities – such as, for example, on the risks that COVID-19 has exposed for driving and mobile work.

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“…The small business sector (0-49 employees) shows a high prevalence of businesses in residential premises (home-based businesses) (Mason et al, 2011). Kane and Clark (2019) estimate for metropolitan areas in Southern California (USA) that one in six businesses are run from residential properties as opposed to commercial properties. Importantly, businesses run from residential properties are different from businesses run from commercial properties especially in that they are mostly located in predominantly residential areas (Kane & Clark, 2019).…”

Section: Trends In the Urban Location Of Small And New Businessesmentioning

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The intra-urban residential and workplace locations of small business owners

Reuschke

Houston

2020

Journal of Urban Affairs

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The notion that buzz, creativity, diversity, openness and a sense of bohemia in cities are important to attract creative workers and entrepreneurs has grown in prominence both in academic literatures and in city economic development strategies. However, there is a disjuncture in the literature and dearth of evidence as to whether entrepreneurs seek bohemian (open, diverse) places in which to live or to locate their business. This study explores the kinds of neighborhood small business owners, in particular entrepreneurial small business owners, live and work in, and the extent to which their intra-urban locational patterns diverge from the general working population. Survey data of small business owners in Edinburgh (UK) uniquely capturing both business location and the residential location of the business owner, and Census data covering all workers with workplaces in Edinburgh are used. Findings support the attraction of some entrepreneurs to bohemian neighborhoods both as places to live and as places to work. Equally, however, findings stress the importance of a diversity of neighborhood types, including attractive suburban neighborhoods, due to business cycle and personal life course effects making non-bohemian neighborhoods also attractive to small business owners.

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Mapping the landscape of urban work: Home-based businesses and the built environment

Cited by 11 publications

References 39 publications

Location Choice of New Business Establishments: Understanding the Local Context and Neighborhood Conditions in the United States

Location Choice of New Business Establishments: Understanding the Local Context and Neighborhood Conditions in the United States

New spatialities of work in the city

The intra-urban residential and workplace locations of small business owners

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