Polycentric vs monocentric urban structure contribution to national development
Abstract The debate about polycentricity and subordinacy has always been a critical topic that planners, economists, and socialists argued about for centuries. The idea of concentricity vs decentralization has affected all life metabolic activities. Urban structure has always been declared to be the...
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| author | Ashraf Sami Mahmoud Abozeid Tarek Abdellatif AboElatta |
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| description | Abstract The debate about polycentricity and subordinacy has always been a critical topic that planners, economists, and socialists argued about for centuries. The idea of concentricity vs decentralization has affected all life metabolic activities. Urban structure has always been declared to be the key factor that affects life metabolism significantly. However, after the pandemic COVID-19, the planning strategies have changed dramatically. The main purpose is to investigate the most appropriate urbanization approach that achieves the best development results. The research methodology is to define and measure the fabric independency as an approach to estimate its self-sufficiency that enables it to stand in front of the pandemic challenges at different circumstances. The paper uses the fabric diversity index as a sensitive indicator of independency and polycentricity of the urban structure. The main conclusion for this paper is that independent polycentric urban agglomerations that are strongly linked achieve much better development results than subordinate cities depending on the main core city. The data used for the analysis are extracted from the Urban Atlas developed by the European Environmental Agency in addition to the UN-Habitat annual report. All calculations, analyses, and deductions are exclusively carried by the author. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f62200a0efa34b28be982b718f6bca192022-12-22T04:03:52ZengSpringerOpenJournal of Engineering and Applied Science1110-19032536-95122021-09-0168111810.1186/s44147-021-00011-1Polycentric vs monocentric urban structure contribution to national developmentAshraf Sami Mahmoud Abozeid0Tarek Abdellatif AboElatta1Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo UniversityDepartment of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo UniversityAbstract The debate about polycentricity and subordinacy has always been a critical topic that planners, economists, and socialists argued about for centuries. The idea of concentricity vs decentralization has affected all life metabolic activities. Urban structure has always been declared to be the key factor that affects life metabolism significantly. However, after the pandemic COVID-19, the planning strategies have changed dramatically. The main purpose is to investigate the most appropriate urbanization approach that achieves the best development results. The research methodology is to define and measure the fabric independency as an approach to estimate its self-sufficiency that enables it to stand in front of the pandemic challenges at different circumstances. The paper uses the fabric diversity index as a sensitive indicator of independency and polycentricity of the urban structure. The main conclusion for this paper is that independent polycentric urban agglomerations that are strongly linked achieve much better development results than subordinate cities depending on the main core city. The data used for the analysis are extracted from the Urban Atlas developed by the European Environmental Agency in addition to the UN-Habitat annual report. All calculations, analyses, and deductions are exclusively carried by the author.https://doi.org/10.1186/s44147-021-00011-1IndependencySatelliteUrban structureUrban agglomerationUrban diversityPolycentricity |
| spellingShingle | Ashraf Sami Mahmoud Abozeid Tarek Abdellatif AboElatta Polycentric vs monocentric urban structure contribution to national development Journal of Engineering and Applied Science Independency Satellite Urban structure Urban agglomeration Urban diversity Polycentricity |
| title | Polycentric vs monocentric urban structure contribution to national development |
| title_full | Polycentric vs monocentric urban structure contribution to national development |
| title_fullStr | Polycentric vs monocentric urban structure contribution to national development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Polycentric vs monocentric urban structure contribution to national development |
| title_short | Polycentric vs monocentric urban structure contribution to national development |
| title_sort | polycentric vs monocentric urban structure contribution to national development |
| topic | Independency Satellite Urban structure Urban agglomeration Urban diversity Polycentricity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s44147-021-00011-1 |
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