Since the last quarter of the 20th century, most of the world population has experimented an important process of globalization, mainly due to; the accelerated knowledge production, the increase of intangible capital on a macroeconomic scale, the increase in levels of innovation, and the ICT...

"The noise has become a major environmental cost that contemporary societies pay for living in densely urbanized areas. The impact of this externality on quality of life is reflected in a decrease of householdís welfare level, and subsequently, in a reduction in property values. Using hedonic...

The use of spatial interaction models based on gravity criteria have been widely applied in the study of urban processes. Although the original perception about the similarity between the social phenomena and physics was first suggested by Carey in the middle of the 19th Century, the formal...

The changes on metropolitan areas characterized by the dispersion and concentrated decentralization of both employment and population has lead to a specialized research line addressed to analyze polycentrism. In this line there are two families of subcentre identification: the first based on the...

The increase in the last decades of the weight of the creative industries and knowledge-intensive sectors (KIS) in the economies of metropolitan areas is transforming the dynamics of urban development, for access of these sectors to agglomeration economies, such as skilled labor and good...

The main objective of the study is the development of a model for the evaluation of the environmental and energy efficiency of the interaction (mobility) and land use structure (called as 'territorial functionality'), applied to the metropolitan area of Barcelona . In particular there are four...

The study of polycentrism has been applied over territory in order to identify and explain the components of the urban structure and the transformation of cities in large metropolitan systems, and its impacts on the social, demographic, economic and environmental issues. It is clear the need to...

This paper reports the results of a research designed to assess the impact of Barcelonaís airport extension in terms of noise increase. A contingent valuation (CV) approach was carried out in order to extract the stated preference for noise reduction for a representative sample of neighbor...

Many studies have analyzed the market premium enjoyed by houses located within gated communities; nevertheless little or no attention has been paid on the impact that such a sort of development produces on the surrounding housing market. This question becomes very important in the cities in...

Polycentrism is becoming one of the dominant structures in contemporary metropolises. Concentrated decentralization and the integration of formerly independent cities by the reduction of travel time are behind of such a process. In this paper, the spatial structure of the seven biggest metro...