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Centers all the way down: a study of centrality in the modern city

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dc.contributor.advisor Peponis, John
dc.contributor.author Sewell, Patrick Dale en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Yang, Perry
dc.contributor.committeeMember Dobbins, Michael
dc.contributor.department City Planning en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2012-06-06T16:42:56Z
dc.date.available 2012-06-06T16:42:56Z
dc.date.issued 2012-01-17 en_US
dc.description.abstract This thesis will empirically examine the distribution of centers of commercial activity in the modern city. Using measures of built space for different types of activity in Atlanta, we will map the distribution of activity in the city; then we will derive the system of centers distributed throughout the city. This system of centers will be sorted into scales, from global to local, so that the morphological properties of the street network associated with each scale may be analyzed using space syntax and other tools. We will then compare the distribution of centers in different portions of Atlanta, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Finally, we will compate the emergent distribution of centers to distributions proposed by Doxiadis, Alexander, Central Place Theory, and others. en_US
dc.description.degree MS en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43594
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject GIS en_US
dc.subject Commercial centers en_US
dc.subject Urban morphology en_US
dc.subject Graph theory en_US
dc.subject Urban planning en_US
dc.subject Urban design en_US
dc.subject Space syntax en_US
dc.subject.lcsh City planning
dc.subject.lcsh Central places
dc.title Centers all the way down: a study of centrality in the modern city en_US
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dc.type.genre Thesis
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local.contributor.advisor Peponis, John
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local.contributor.corporatename School of City and Regional Planning
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