This thesis analyzes the economic health of the dining establishments in Downtown San Diego, CA, specifically in the vicinity of Petco Park. Opened in 2004, Petco Park is home to the San Diego Padres, a Major League Baseball franchise. In addition, it serves as a venue for outdoor concerts and shows. The venue is used for most of the year due to an expanded Major League Baseball schedule, especially compared to other professional sports. Much of the transformation of San Diego’s Downtown can be attributed to the late 1990’s East Village Revitalization Plan, which included municipal anchors like the San Diego Central Library, the San Diego Convention Center, and Petco Park. By looking at the restaurant industry as of 2019, this thesis strives to provide a better understanding of how an urban entertainment anchor provides grounds for mutually beneficial conditions to small businesses. Additionally, this thesis integrates the concept of economic health into the larger field of knowledge around urban professional sports stadia. Further, this thesis aims to burgeon a framework for taxonomic research of professional sports stadia.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiz Paulo Ribeiro Siqueira.pdf: 1238141 bytes, checksum: 3347fb3be2cc5ab7ba95d3cb12ba619d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The flow of urban development starting from the second half of the twentieth century has significantly changed the structure from the most cities around the world. The processes of urban expansion and employment decentralization became the monocentric theoretical framework, the main analytical tool of the New Urban Economics, inappropriate for understanding the dynamics of the great polycentric cities. The difficulties regarding the creation of a polycentric approach theoretically elegant and intuitive, so as the monocentric, culminated in the development, from the mid-1980s, in a series of techniques for the identification of employment subcenters, or just urban subcenters. In proposing the analysis of the territory of the city of São Paulo under a polycentric perspective, this essay will use two main methods for the identification of sub-centers spread in international practice, the procedure based on cutoff values and the local Moran statistic, as described in the work of ANSELIN (1995). Based on the data of Pesquisa Origem e Destino de 2007 and the search for consistency between the theoretical assumptions about the structure of urban space and the results obtained by the methodological procedures applied, besides to prove to the importance of the main center, this essay identifies four other subcenters in Sao Paulo. It can also be observed the predominance of jobs linked to the service sector in these places, their importance in the urban context and the similarity of results with respect to the location of the sub-centers, when compared to other intraurban subcenters identified in the international practice / O curso do desenvolvimento urbano a partir da segunda metade do século XX alterou de forma significativa a estrutura das cidades ao redor do mundo. Os processos de expansão urbana e descentralização do emprego fizeram com que o arcabouço teórico monocêntrico, principal instrumento analítico da Nova Economia Urbana, se tornasse inadequado para a análise da dinâmica das grandes cidades policêntricas. As dificuldades quanto à criação de uma abordagem teórica policêntrica elegante e intuitiva, tão quanto a monocêntrica, culminou no desenvolvimento, a partir de meados da década de 1980, de uma série de técnicas para a identificação de subcentros de emprego, ou apenas subcentros urbanos. Ao propor a análise do território da cidade de São Paulo sob uma ótica policêntrica, este trabalho fará o uso de duas das principais metodologias para a identificação de subcentros difundidas na prática internacional; o procedimento ligado ao estabelecimento de valores de corte e a estatística local de Moran, tal como se apresenta no trabalho de ANSELIN (1995). A partir dos dados da Pesquisa Origem e Destino de 2007 e na busca pela correspondência entre as premissas teóricas sobre a estrutura do espaço urbano e os resultados obtidos pelos procedimentos metodológicos aplicados este trabalho, além de atestar a importância do centro principal, identifica outros 4 subcentros na cidade de São Paulo. Pode-se observar, ainda, a predominância dos empregos ligados ao setor de serviços nestes locais, sua importância no contexto urbano e a similaridade dos resultados no que diz respeito à localização dos subcentros, quando se comparada à de outros subcentros intra-urbanos identificados na prática internacional

Tony Man Yiu Chiu. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-227). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Acknowledgments --- p.i / Abstracts --- p.ii / Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables and Figures --- p.viii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Research Topic --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Questions --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Data and Methodology --- p.7 / Chapter 1.4 --- Plan of the Thesis --- p.9 / Chapter Part I --- Theoretical and Empirical Background / Chapter Chapter 2. --- URBAN STRUCTURE IN A GLOBAL CITY: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS --- p.10-43 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Global City Thesis --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Global City and Urban Industrial Structure / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Global-City Theories of Industrial Change --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Industrial Location Approach --- p.18 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- A Recapitulation --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3 --- Global City and Urban Business Structure / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Global-City Theories of Office Location --- p.25 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- A Recapitulation --- p.28 / Chapter 2.4 --- Global City and Urban Social Structure / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Global-City Theories of Urban Social Structure --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Problems Reinstated --- p.36 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Mapping of Urban Structure in a Global City: A Reappraisal of Urban Ecology --- p.38 / Chapter 2.5 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.42 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- HONG KONG: FROM AN INDUSTRIAL CITY TO GLOBAL CITY --- p.44-69 / Chapter 3.1 --- Post-war Industrial Development (1950-1975) --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2 --- Industrial Restructuring (1975-91) --- p.51 / Chapter 3.3 --- Is Hong Kong a Global City? --- p.57 / Chapter 3.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.66 / Chapter Part II --- The Geography of Growth and Decline / Chapter Chapter 4 --- URBAN INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE: LOCATIONAL PATTERN OF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES1971-1989 --- p.70-118 / Chapter 4.1 --- Spatial Pattern of Manufacturing Industries --- p.72 / Chapter 4.2 --- Decentralization of Manufacturing Industries / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Decentralization in the Seventies --- p.78 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- New Town Development and Industrial Decentralization --- p.83 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Decentralization in the Eighties --- p.85 / Chapter 4.3 --- Spatial Difference of Production Scales --- p.86 / Chapter 4.4 --- Locational Dynamics of Manufacturing Industries --- p.92 / Chapter 4.5 --- A Recapitulation --- p.102 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- URBAN BUSINESS STRUCTURE: LOCATIONAL PATTERN OF PRODUCER SERVICE ACTIVITIES --- p.119-169 / Chapter 5.1 --- Spatial Development of Office Centres in Hong Kong / Chapter 5.1.1 --- General Distribution of Office Centre in Hong Kong --- p.122 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Overall Distribution --- p.123 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- A Decentralized CBD? --- p.127 / Chapter 5.2 --- Locational Dynamics of Producer Service Activities --- p.132 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Banking Sector --- p.133 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Other Financial Institutions --- p.135 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Insurance --- p.137 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- Real Estate and Business Service --- p.138 / Chapter 5.2.5 --- Import and Export Trading --- p.141 / Chapter 5.3 --- A Brief Note on the Factors of Decentralization --- p.143 / Chapter 5.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.147 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- URBAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE: RESIDENTIAL DIFFERENTIATION IN A GLOBAL CITY --- p.168-210 / Chapter 6.1 --- Methodological Issues in Factorial Ecology / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Factorial Ecology --- p.170 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Some Unresolved Methodological Problems --- p.172 / Chapter 6.2 --- A Factor Analysis of the 1996 By-Census Data / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Method of Analysis --- p.174 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- An Analysis of Urban Structure in the whole Territories of Hong Kong --- p.175 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- An Analysis of Urban Structure of Hong Kong and Kowloon --- p.177 / Chapter 6.2.4 --- A Comparison of Urban Structure from 1981 to1996 --- p.181 / Chapter 6.3 --- "Mapping of Urban Structure in Hong Kong and Kowloon," --- p.183 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- An Overview of the Post-War Urban Structure 1950-1980 --- p.184 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- "Mapping of Spatial Structure of Hong Kong,1996" --- p.188 / Chapter 6.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.196 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- CONCLUSION / Chapter 7.1 --- Spatial Dynamics in a Global City: A Summary View --- p.211 / Chapter 7.2 --- Limitation of this Thesis and Future Research Direction --- p.213 / REFERENCE --- p.217 / Appendix 1 Classification of TPUs into District/Areas for Chapter 4-5 --- p.228

L’Amérique Latine et les Caraïbes sont l’une des régions plus violentes du monde. Le niveau de violence est particulièrement élevé dans les plus grandes villes de cette région (UNODC, 2013). La compréhension des déterminants de la criminalité urbaine est donc un défi majeur pour ces pays. Cette thèse a pour but d’explorer le rôle de trois déterminants de la criminalité en Équateur: les inégalités économiques, la taille des villes et le role des émotions liés aux évènements sportifs tels que les matchs de football.Avant d’entreprendre cette analyse empirique, nous proposons une revue des littératures théorique et empirique sur les déterminants de la criminalité urbaine. Une conclusion importante est que les incitations économiques conduisant à des activités criminelles sont influencées par les schémas de localisation des criminels et des victimes. Partant de ce constat, la thèse propose d’entreprendre trois analyses empiriques à différentes échelles géographiques. Tout d’abord, nous explorons l'effet des inégalités de revenus sur le risque de victimisation en Équateur, en utilisant des données individuelles issues de l’enquête nationale de victimisation. Le principal résultat est que, contrairement aux prédictions, le coefficient de Gini a un effet négatif sur la probabilité d’être victime de vols. Ce résultat pourrait être lié à une ségrégation résidentielle élevée ou à un contrôle social élevé contre la criminalité. De plus, les estimations révèlent une relation croissante et concave entre le niveau de revenu des victimes et la probabilité de victimisation concernant les vols de véhicule, qui augmente avec un revenu mensuel jusqu’à 5,100 dollars, et puis diminue.Ensuite, nous testons l'existence d'une prime de criminalité urbaine (criminalité plus élevée dans les zones urbaines) en Équateur, à l’échelle des paroisses. Le principal résultat indique que la taille des villes a une influence non-monotone sur le taux d’homicide. La probabilité de constater un ou plusieurs homicides est plus élevée dans les paroisses les plus peuplées. Toutefois, le taux d’homicide diminue avec le niveau de population dans les paroisses où se produisent des homicides. Concernant les crimes contre la propriété, les résultats confirment l’influence positive de la population sur le nombre de crime par habitant. Enfin, nous estimons l’impact des matchs de football sur le nombre d'homicides et de crimes contre la propriété dans 16 cantons d’Équateur, à l’échelle intra-urbaine. L’objectif est d’étudier l’influence des matchs de football sur les profils temporels et géographiques des crimes, ainsi que l’impact des émotions (frustration et euphorie) liées aux résultats des matchs sur la criminalité. Les résultats indiquent que le nombre d'homicides augmente 0.18% avant le match, tandis que le nombre de crimes contre la propriété augmente 12% après le match, à proximité du stade. Les matchs de football entraînent également une diffusion spatiale de la criminalité dans des quartiers éloignés des stades. Les jours de matchs, les crimes contre la propriété diminuent 0.88% avant le match et les homicides diminuent 0.05% pendant le match, dans les quartiers éloignés des stades. Après le match, les homicides et les crimes contre la propriété augmentent de manière significative dans les quartiers éloignés des stades. Enfin, l'effet des émotions sur les homicides et les crimes contre la propriété n'est pas significatif au niveau agrégé, alors qu’il est significatif en ce qui concerne les homicides commis dans la capitale de l'Équateur, Quito. / Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the most violent regions in the world. Importantly, higher levels of violence prevail in most urbanized LAC cities (UNODC, 2013). Understanding the determinants of urban crime is therefore a major challenge for those countries. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the role of three crime determinants in Ecuador: economic inequalities, city size, and the emotions caused by soccer events.Before conducting this empirical analysis, we first review the theoretical and empirical literature on urban crime determinants. An important conclusion is that economic incentives that lead individuals to commit crime are influenced by the location pattern of criminals and victims. Building on these considerations, we perform three empirical analyses at different geographic levels.First, we explore the effect of income inequality on victimization in Ecuador, using data at the individual level thanks to the Ecuadorian Victimization survey. The main result is that, contrary to the predictions, the Gini coefficient has a negative effect on victimization by robbery. This result could be related to a high residential segregation or a high social control against crime. In addition, we provide evidence for an increasing and concave relationship between the income level of victims and the probability of victimization by vehicle theft, which first increases with a monthly household income up to $5,100, and then falls.Second, we test the existence of an urban crime premium (higher crime in urban areas) in Ecuador, at the parish level. Our main result is that population exerts a non-linear influence on the homicide rate. The probability that a homicide happens is higher in larger parishes. However, the homicide rate decreases with population in parishes with positive homicides. By contrast, the results regarding property crimes confirm that the level of population increases the number of pecuniary crimes per inhabitant.Third, we explore the effect of soccer matches on the number of homicides and property crimes in 16 cantons of Ecuador, at the intra-city level. The aim is to test whether soccer matches alter the temporal and spatial patterns of crime, and the role of emotions (frustration and euphoria) resulting from soccer matches on crime. Results reveal that the number of homicides increases by 0.18% before the match whereas the number of property crimes increases by 12% after the match, near the stadium. Soccer matches also cause spatial spillovers of crime in locations distant from stadiums. On game days, the number of property crimes falls by 0.88% before the match and the number of homicides falls by 0.05% during the match, in these distant locations. After the game, the homicides and property crimes significantly increase in locations distant from stadiums. Finally, the effect of emotions on homicides or property crimes is not significant at the aggregate level but it is significant regarding homicides that occur in the capital of Ecuador, Quito.

Cette thèse s’intéresse aux choix de politique publique des collectivités locales, telles que les municipalités, qui font face à une forte mobilité du capital, des résidents et des travailleurs. La littérature sur la concurrence fiscale a porté une attention très limitée à cette forte mobilité des agents économiques au niveau local. La mobilité des ménages a le plus souvent été ignorée. Aucun modèle unifié ne tient compte de la mobilité du capital, des résidents et des travailleurs. Les modèles existants,en faisant l'hypothèse de résidents ou travailleurs immobiles, décrivent davantage une réalité nationale, voire régionale, mais pas locale.La question de recherche de notre thèse est : comment, au sein d'une agglomération urbaine, des gouvernements locaux concurrents, faisant face à une importante mobilité du capital, des résidents et des travailleurs, choisissent-ils leurs divers instruments de politique publique ? Elle a un intérêt théorique car elle met en lumière nos lacunes dans la connaissance des gouvernements locaux. Elle a également un intérêt empirique car les données fiscales, socio-démographiques, économiques etpolitiques au niveau municipal comptent parmi les plus accessibles.Notre thèse peut fournir de meilleures bases théoriques pour de futurs travaux théoriques et permettre d'ouvrir la voie vers de nouvelles approches dans l'étude des choix des gouvernements locaux. / This thesis is interested in public policy choices of local governments of the low-level jurisdictions, such as municipalities which face a high degree of mobility of capital, residents and workers. The tax competition literature did not pay enough attention to this strong mobility of the agents. Household mobility is most often ignored in the literature and there exists no model including capital, residents' and workers' mobility. By assuming immobility of households (either residents or workers or both), previous work depicts more a regional or national environment than a local one.This thesis addresses the following question: within metropolitan areas, how do competing local governments, facing a high mobility of capital, residents and workers, choose their various policy instruments? Theoretically, our thesis contributes to fill the gap in the literature mentioned above. It also matters from an empirical perspective. Indeed, fiscal, socio-demographic, economic and political data at the municipal level are among the most accessible ones.Our thesis can help to provide better theoretical grounds for future empirical work and pave the way for new approaches in the study of local governments' choices where agents' mobility plays a central role.

Urban sprawl is the uncontrolled and uncoordinated outgrowth of towns and cities. Noting the various studies, the pattern of urban sprawl is characterised by using spatial metrics based on the extent of paved surface or built-up areas. The process of urban sprawl can be described by change in pattern over time, like proportional increase in built-up surface to population leading to rapid urban spatial expansion. With an understanding of the patterns, processes and causes of urban sprawl, the consequences of sprawl can be explored which are reflected by the patterns, thus eventually aiding in the design of spatial planning support system. Following the sequence of patterns, process, causes and consequence, sets the research agenda as the framework for this research. The current research addresses the issue of urban sprawl in the context of Bangalore, India. We propose a theoretical framework to analyse the interaction of planning and governance on the extent of outgrowth and level of services. Reviewing the different indicator frameworks, we also propose urban sprawl indicators and operationalise the same for Bangalore. The indicators comprise spatial metrics (derived from temporal satellite remote sensing data) and other metrics obtained from a house-hold survey. The interaction of different indicators with respect to the core city and the outgrowth is determined by multidimensional scaling. The analyses reveal the underlying patterns -similarities (and dissimilarities) that relate with the different governance structures that prevail here. Subsequently, we attempt to understand the process of sprawl. This might help one to understand the dynamics that lead to such outgrowths. An attempt was made to capture the dynamics using systems approach and finally the insights gained were translated into agent-based land-use model. Noting the evolution of spatial planning support system (SPSS), the consequences of sprawl are explored. The SPSS developed on an agent-based modelling environment, is essentially a process-based land-use model. We highlight the need for an integrated SPSS, illustrating its development and evaluation. The policy analysis carried out using the SPSS offers insights into areas of concern. It is concluded by noting the drawbacks and challenges for future research for managing urban sprawl. In the present context, with the escalating problem of urban sprawl, the evolution of a SPSS in the form of the BangaloreSim model is the first step in this direction. The SPSS aids in undertaking policy analysis for certain policy measures and its consequences on urban land-use. The research concludes outlining the challenges in addressing urban sprawl while ensuring adequate level of services that planning and governance have to ensure towards achieving sustainable urbanisation.

La tesi modifica l’indice di qualità della vita urbana introdotto da Roback (1982) in letteratura. L’obiettivo è quello di misurare il livello di accessibilità per particolari beni distribuiti all’interno di una singola città, sfruttando un indice di disugliaglianza alla Atkinson-Kolm-Sen, disaggragabile in funzione delle diverse caratteristiche considerate. Il modello teorico è stato provato su dati per il Comune di Milano, che hanno permesso di calcolare indici di prezzo edonico per le caratteristiche introdotte nell’intervallo 2004-2008. L’analisi della segregazione residenziale all’interno del comune è stata valutata nell’intervallo 1991-2007 e da questa è stata sviluppata un’analisi dell’indice di segregazione di Atkinson coerente con le misure di uguaglianza e segregazione esistenti nella letteratura dei pianificatori e dei sociologi. / The thesis modifies the urban Quality of Life index introduced in the literature by Roback (1982). The aim if the work is to measure the level of accessibility to particular goods distributed within a single city, exploiting the inequality index à la Atkinson-Kolm-Sen, which can be disentangled depending on the characteristics considered. The theoretical model has been tested on data about the Municipality of Milan, at carring out as well hedonic price indices over the characteristics introduced in the time span 2004-2008. The analysis of the residential segregation has been referred to the time span 1991-2007 and it has yielded a residential segregation index consistent with measures of both fairness and segregation, already available in the literature of planners and sociologists.

This dissertation tests the proposition that the spatial structure of street networks affects the distribution of urban land use. Specifically, it examines patterns of commercial land use utilizing parcel based data on retail and service businesses location. While previous studies report a correlation between spatial structure and patterns of commercial land use, these studies do not typically control for the effect of key variables likely to contribute to the spatial distribution of retail and service establishments. In order to redress this balance, and using the City of Buenos Aires as a case study, this dissertation studies the correlation between commercial land use frontage and street connectivity measures, while controlling for street widths, density of population and employment, interstore externalities, zoning regulations, and distance to transit stations. Buenos Aires is chosen for its regular plan radiating from a well-defined CBD, a plan which would be expected to conform to standard urban attraction models of retail location. Results of multiple regression models indicate that, after controlling for these variables, measures of street connectivity account for key aspects of the distribution of retail, including linear distributions along major radial and peripheral streets at a distance from the CBD. Thus, the dissertation supports the thesis that "urban attraction" should not be conceptualized in terms of distances from a unique central location, or a number of central locations, but rather in terms of a model of distributed centrality governed by the structure of street networks.

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Each of them presents and analyses one relevant question of the urban economics theories for the specific context of the Brazilian contemporary cities. The objective of the first essay is to investigate the relation between the processes of urban sprawl and spatial segregation in the city of São Paulo. Establishing the discussion in the theories of urban economics, the essay is based on the assumption that both processes result from the operation of housing market, including its inherent failures that drives the distribution of the population groups according to the different social characteristics. The work focuses on the central issue of the continuous occupation of the fringes of the city and the consequences for the spatial urban structure. The second essay is dedicated to the investigation of the distribution of employment subcenters in the city of São Paulo and their relation with the land rent gradients. In the third essay, we are again interested in the process of urban sprawl, but here we introduce a dynamic perspective having the Amazonian fast growing medium size cities as examples. The objective is to investigate the impact of the expectations for the future enhancement of land values among the landholders and the impact in conversion for different land use in the urban fringes. Using remote sensing data, we compare the uses and land covers previously to the urban conversion identifying a scale of urban land use potential. The thesis is based on the assumption that is possible to establish mathematical-computational representation of the spatial urban structure with the use of geographical information systems, and aims to contribute to the constitution of digital territories as quantitative expressions of environmental and social concepts that define the urban structure. Through these representations, this thesis aims to contribute to the insertion of the territorial dimension on the political and economic decision making processes that continuously interfere in our cities and in the life conditions that they propitiate. / Esta tese apresenta novas possibilidades metodológicas no campo do urbanismo através da aplicação de técnicas derivadas da ciência da geoinformação a luz das teorias de economia urbana. O trabalho está organizado em torno de três ensaios. Cada ensaio se dedica a apresentação e análise de uma questão específica identificada como relevante dentro das teorias da economia urbana no contexto de cidades brasileiras. O primeiro ensaio tem como objetivo investigar as relações que possam existir entre os processos de expansão urbana e a segregação socioespacial na cidade de São Paulo. Situando a discussão dentro de uma perspectiva de economia urbana, o ensaio parte do pressuposto de que ambos os processos estão relacionados às forças de mercado habitacional, incluindo suas falhas inerentes, que acabam por definir a distribuição dos grupos populacionais de acordo com suas características socioeconômicas. O estudo se debruça sobre uma questão central ao debate urbanístico atual que é a ocupação contínua das áreas de fronteira urbana e na forma como este processo impacta a estrutura urbana. O segundo capítulo traz o ensaio onde tratamos de analisar as questões relativas à distribuição dos empregos na cidade de São Paulo e suas consequências para os modelos de economia urbana baseados em gradientes de renda e valor da terra. O terceiro capítulo traz o ensaio no qual retomamos a discussão sobre os processos de expansão urbana, porém situando a discussão a partir de uma perspectiva dinâmica em cidades médias em rápido crescimento demográfico. Neste contexto, há o reconhecimento de que a composição dos preços da terra nas áreas limítrofes da mancha urbana sofre uma forte influência de expectativas de retornos levando a uma sobrevalorização do preço gerada por processos de retenção de terras. Em uma análise aplicada às cidades amazônicas de Marabá e Santarém, buscamos caracterizar em uma perspectiva comparativa os processos de conversão da terra em usos urbanos nas últimas três décadas. Incorporando a informação sobre os usos do solo anteriores a conversão para uso urbano, criamos uma escala de potencial de conversão relativo a cada uso. Partindo do pressuposto de que é possível estabelecer representações matemático-computacionais da estrutura urbana em sistemas de informação geográfica, o trabalho espera contribuir para a constituição dos territórios digitais como expressões quantitativas de conceitos sobre os diferentes processos ambientais e socioeconômicos que acabam por definir o ambiente urbano. Através destas representações, buscar inserir o território no centro das decisões políticas e econômicas que seguem continuamente conformando essas cidades e as condições objetivas de vida que elas propiciam.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-13T17:10:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseES_DISSERT.pdf: 4266685 bytes, checksum: 26f02f5042ec13eba7fa6c199f1602d1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-27 / The Feira da Pedra is an extension of the open fair of S?o Bento in the State of Paraiba. It is a system of trade in textile goods produced by textile industry in manufacturing of hammocks and derivatives of this industry, present in some cities in the state of Paraiba and Rio Grande do Norte, as a survival strategy, inserted in the list of tertiary and retail of the urban economics of this city. It is thereby aimed to discuss about the urban economics, reflecting on the open fair system from the two circuits of urban economy, mainly in the context of the dynamics of the current period of geographic space, the technical-scientific-informational period, as the specific empirical object, the Feira da Pedra of S?o Bento (PB). For this, this research was carried out in two stages of operation: a) surveys of secondary data and b) primary data collection which were reported an operational triad: I) literature; II) documentary research, and III) research of field. The presence of the Feira da Pedra in S?o Bento has shown us one of the most important characteristics of this city, in order to present major economic, social and cultural benefits to the local population, and contribute to (re) production of sertanejo space, making lower part of the circuit of its urban economy. This activity has entailed several dynamics for urban space in this city, mainly because of attracting large numbers of people, carrying typical actions of its relationship with the urban space are s?o-bentense and built environment. Thus, its importance is not only a local and regional phenomenon, but also a cultural reference of a place in the geographical area of many paraibanos and norte-rio-grandenses subjects, as the case of this activity has brought to its weekly routine, this product resulting from the textile working of this area of Sert?o Paraibano and Serid? Potiguar / A Feira da Pedra ? uma extens?o da feira livre de S?o Bento, no Estado da Para?ba. Trata-se de um sistema de com?rcio de mercadorias t?xteis produzidas pela ind?stria t?xtil de fabrica??o de redes de dormir e derivados dessa ind?stria, presente em algumas cidades do estado da Para?ba e do Rio Grande do Norte, constituindo-se como uma estrat?gia de sobreviv?ncia, inserida no rol do terci?rio e do com?rcio varejista da economia urbana dessa cidade. Diante disso, objetivamos discutir acerca da economia urbana, refletindo sobre o sistema feira livre a partir dos dois circuitos da economia urbana, em especial no contexto das din?micas do per?odo do espa?o geogr?fico atual o per?odo t?cnico-cient?fico-informacional , tendo como objeto espec?fico emp?rico a Feira da Pedra de S?o Bento (PB). Para tanto, em duas etapas de operacionaliza??o realizamos esta pesquisa: a) levantamentos de dados secund?rios e b) levantamentos de dados prim?rios, que nos reportam a uma tr?ade operacional: I) pesquisa bibliogr?fica; II) pesquisa documental; e III) pesquisa de campo. A presen?a da Feira da Pedra em S?o Bento tem nos mostrado uma das mais importantes caracter?sticas dessa cidade, tendo em vista possuir grande import?ncia econ?mica, social e cultural para a popula??o local, al?m de contribuir para a (re)produ??o desse espa?o sertanejo, fazendo parte do circuito inferior de sua economia urbana. Essa atividade acarreta diversas din?micas ao espa?o urbano dessa cidade, sobretudo pelo fato de atrair grande n?mero de pessoas, carregando consigo a??es t?picas de sua rela??o com o espa?o urbano s?o-bentense e do meio constru?do. Assim, sua import?ncia n?o se constitui apenas em um fen?meno local e regional, mas tamb?m numa refer?ncia cultural de um lugar do espa?o geogr?fico de muitos sujeitos paraibanos e norte-rio-grandenses, pois o acontecer dessa atividade traz para o seu cotidiano semanal o produto resultante da labuta t?xtil do Sert?o Paraibano e do Serid? Potiguar