Exploring the land development process and its impact on urban form in Hamilton, Ontario

Bibliographic Data

ID8423409
AuthorsHanna F Maoh, Hanna Maoh (0000-0002-6699-4568, University of Windsor, corresponding author), MANOLIS KORONIOS (McMaster University, corresponding author), Pavlos S Kanaroglou, Pavlos Kanaroglou (McMaster University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume54
Issue1
Pages68-86
Publication date2010-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-3658 • E-ISSN: 1541-0064
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00303.x
OpenAlexW2064276843
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited29

The form of many Canadian cities has dramatically evolved over the past six decades due to urban sprawl. Several patterns can characterize this evolution including unlimited horizontal expansion of the city, leapfrog, and low‐density residential development at the outskirts, and widespread strip commercial and power centre retail development. Hamilton, Ontario is an example of a Canadian city that has experienced suburbanization and sprawled development for several decades. However, the nature of this sprawled development is unclear and its impact on urban form is not entirely understood. In this article, several hypotheses pertaining to sprawled land development and urban form are postulated and tested. The tests rely on point source data of the developed land parcels in Hamilton during the period 1950–2003. A number of spatial statistics techniques, including kernel estimation and complete spatial randomness (CSR) K‐function tests, are employed to examine the emerging nature of urban form. We hypothesize that while the city has been sprawling, the ongoing land development process is leading urban form into multinucleation. To support this assumption, we further hypothesize the existence of an interdependent spatial relationship between residential and commercial land uses at the emerging nuclei. Accordingly, we examine the strength of co‐clustering among these land use activities over time. The findings indicate that while the city has been sprawling, several consequent urban nuclei with mixed land use activities have been emerging and become more visible in recent years. This is an indication that the city's form is progressively becoming multinuclear. Furthermore, the estimates for the 1990s indicate interdependence between the locational patterns of residential and commercial land development. Co‐clustering between these two types of land uses is bi‐directional and occurs at a time lag of three to seven years. These findings affirm the existence of interdependence between land use activities at the observed nuclei, which support the emergence of a multinucleation

Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Land development · Land use · Metropolitan area · Per capita · Population · Regional science · Sociology · Suburbanization · Urban planning · Urban sprawl · Urbanization · Demography · Ecology · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis

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