Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12913801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesca Froy (0000-0003-4878-7394, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 495-510 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-1386 • E-ISSN: 1752-1378 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cjres/rsad024 |
| OpenAlex | W4386952409 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 51 |
This article seeks to advance a key element of the methodological framework for evolutionary economic geography (EEG)—the conceptualisation of ‘urban space’. Drawing on recent theories from architecture and urban data science, it argues that the networked and topological qualities of urban built environments have been neglected in the EEG discipline, and yet they play an important role in how cities work as ‘complex evolving systems’. The article explores different ways in which the spatial configuration of cities influences urban economic evolution, drawing on Bill Hillier’s theory of space syntax and a case study from Greater Manchester. It concludes that when urban street systems are disrupted this can potentially become one contributing factor in why places become economically ‘left behind’
Architectural engineering · Architectural theory · Civil engineering · Complex system · Data science · Economic geography · Element (criminal law · Geography · Key (lock · Political science · Regional science · Social science · Sociology · Space syntax · Urban design · Urban theory · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis · Architecture · Law
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The New Science of Cities
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Space as a Keyword
Spatial Divisions of Labour
Creative Multiplicities
Taking Innovation to the Streets
The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it)
Spatial culture, processional culture and the materialities of social memory in nineteenth-century Sheffield
Tales of the city
Complexity thinking and evolutionary economic geography
Collective culture and urban public space
Building a better theory of the urban
Mapping spatial cultures
Location and Agglomeration
Clusters and knowledge
Contrasts in agglomeration
Why do industries coagglomerate? How Marshallian externalities differ by industry and have evolved over time
Current debates in urban theory
Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Regional Economic Growth
Proximity and Innovation
The Built Environment and the Urban Question
The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Recycling Urban Systems and Metropolitan Areas
Relational Economic Geography
Places and Their Pasts
Evolutionary Urban Transportation Planning
The urban process under capitalism
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Metropolis
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |