In the last decades, there have been many articles on the spatial structure of metropolitan
areas, but a study for explaining driving factors of changes in the spatial structure of …

Identifying the structure of a polycentric city is vital to various studies, such as urban sprawl
and population movement dynamics. This paper presents an efficient and reliable method …

Agglomeration economies are a fundamental explanation for the existence of cities. Spatial
clustering allows for a variety of external benefits such as labor pooling, sharing of suppliers …

This study illustrates multifaceted urbanization patterns and processes in a coastal region of
Catalonia (northeastern Spain) as a paradigmatic example of the socio-economic …

The paper examines the geography of three street centrality indices and their correlations
with various types of economic activities in Barcelona, Spain. The focus is on what type of …

The increased population and the fast expansion of urbanization were some of the global
main characteristics in the past decades. This expansion has shaped the diverse spatial …

I investigate the effect of improvements to the transportation infrastructure on changes in
location patterns of population in Barcelona, Spain between 1991 and 2006. At a census …

This paper proposes a novel methodology for delineating urban areas based on a machine
learning algorithm that groups buildings within portions of space of sufficient density. To do …

The rapid development of the urban city has led to great changes in the urban spatial
structure. Thus, analyses of polycentric urban spatial structures are important for …

Recent decades have witnessed a drastic shift in the spatial structure of China's large cities,
from being monocentric to polycentric; however, the existing literature has not completely …