Polycentric urban structures are important spatial development strategies in megacities;
however, they have decentralized morphologies and functional characteristics that …

Abstract Information and communication technology is changing the way in which cities
organise policymaking and urban growth. Smart Cities base their strategy on the use of …

The global urbanization has produced a number of metropolises with complex urban spatial
structures. Compared with monocentric cities, these metropolises typically have multiple …

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 …

Swimming pools are together an exemplificative outcome of urban sprawl and an indicator
of socio-spatial polarizations in metropolitan regions. A comparative analysis of the spatial …

A shift from monocentric cities to increasingly polycentric urban regions has been widely
recognised in recent research literature. Although polycentricity in general refers to the …

In this article, we use local indicators of spatial association (LISA) and other spatial analysis
techniques to analyze the distribution of centers with high employment density within …

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 …

Polycentricity belongs to the most versatile and fuzzy concepts in urban geography. It
basically points to the existence of more than one center within a conurbation. Previous …

Abstract Commuting patterns in Sub-Saharan African cities are evolving in tandem with
rapid levels of historical urbanization. Yet, our understanding of how the prevailing urban …