Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Oner, Asli Ceylan
Author's Email Address	aconer@vt.edu
URN	etd-02142008-050307
Title	LOCATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF GLOBAL ADVANCED PRODUCER SERVICE FIRMS IN THE POLYCENTRIC US METROPOLIS
Degree	PhD
Department	Environmental Design and Planning
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Paul L. Knox Committee Chair Casey J. Dawkins Committee Member Edward Weisband Committee Member Heike Mayer Committee Member Peter J. Taylor Committee Member Robert E. Lang Committee Member
Keywords	advanced producer service firms polycentric metropolis high-rise office buildings global cities globalization
Date of Defense	2008-01-30
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This study is generally concerned with the assumption that the contemporary global flows of people, capital, and commodities, which accelerated dramatically in the age of globalization, have significant impacts on the land use patterns of global cities. With this assumption, the study further questions in the context of polycentric US metropolis, whether or not the distribution of transnational advanced producer service firms define a new form of centrality, in which the traditional central business districts and suburban centers differ from each other in terms of spatial clustering patterns and sectoral distributions of transnational advanced producer service firms. Spatial clustering patterns of advanced producer service firms are evaluated according to high-rise and high-density criteria. In ten selected cities, clusters of advanced producer service firms and high-rise office buildings are identified through the Nearest Neighbor Hierarchical Clustering Method in CrimeStat. To define the polycentric US metropolis, the research employs Lang et al’s (2006) classification of metropolitan office space. The results show significant differences between former manufacturing belt cities and Sunbelt cities.
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