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Information Technology Impacts on Urban Spatial Structure in the Chicago Region
Author(s) -
Sohn Jungyul,
Kim Tschangho John,
Hewings Geoffrey J.D.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
geographical analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1538-4632
pISSN - 0016-7363
DOI - 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2002.tb01092.x
Subject(s) - spillover effect , urban spatial structure , economic geography , regional science , dispersion (optics) , spatial dispersion , geography , center (category theory) , scale (ratio) , orientation (vector space) , information technology , spatial analysis , cartography , urban planning , computer science , economics , civil engineering , engineering , remote sensing , mathematics , microeconomics , physics , operating system , chemistry , geometry , optics , crystallography
This paper examines the impact of information technology on urban spatial structure in the Chicago region. Urban scientists are challenged to understand in what ways information technology has influenced the distribution of urban economic activities: concentration or dispersion. Using data collected in the Chicago region, orientation of establishments toward the center is tested to separate the impact of locational features of centers from the impact of information technology. The result reveals that information technology has attraction as well as spillover effect on urban spatial structure and thus concentration rather than dispersion is dominant at a local scale in the Chicago region. It was found, however, that center‐orientedness varies depending on the sector.