Delimiting the postmodern urban center_an analysis of urban amenity cluster in los angeles

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1、DELIMITINGTHEPOSTMODERNURBANCENTER:ANANALYSISOFURBANAMENITYCLUSTERSINLOSANGELESbySamuelGlendeningKrueger________________________________________________________________________AThesisPresentedtotheFACULTYOFTHEUSCGRADUATESCHOOLUNIVERSITYOFSOUTHERNCALIFORNIAInPartialFulfillmentoftheRequirementsfortheD

2、egreeMASTEROFSCIENCE(GEOGRAPHICINFORMATIONSCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGY)August2012Copyright2012SamuelGlendeningKruegerTABLEOFCONTENTSListofTablesiiiListofFiguresivAbbreviationsixAbstractxChapter1:Introduction11.1ANewMethodforDelimitingCityCenters11.2DelimitingtheCenterofLosAngeles2Chapter2:Context32.1Existin

3、gmethodsfordelimitingcitycenters32.2Newwaysofseeingcentrality152.3Anewconceptfordelimitingcitycenters232.4PopularconceptsregardingthecenterofLosAngeles292.5ResearchintothecenterofLosAngeles322.6TheWilshire/SantaMonicaCorridor:ahypothesis42Chapter3:Data483.1EsriBusinessAnalyst483.2NorthAmericanIndust

4、ryClassificationSystem(NAICS)503.3DirectoryofMajorMalls(DMM)57Chapter4:Methodology604.1MethodologicalConsiderations604.2AnalysisProcess78Chapter5:Discussion1075.1Results1075.2Questionsofprecision1155.3Amoredetailedanalysisofthecentralareas1205.4Implicationsfordelimitingcitycenters1245.5Implicationsf

5、orLosAngeles1285.6TheWilshire/SantaMonicaCorridor1315.7Furtherresearch157References165iiLISTOFTABLESTable1:AmenitycategorieswithNAICScodesanddescriptions.55Table2:Attributesofeachanalysisarray.76Table3:Attributesoftheunionarray.77Table4:HierarchyofcentralneighborhoodsintheWilshire/Santa143MonicaCorr

6、idor.Table5:HierarchyofcentralnodesintheWilshire/SantaMonica149Corridor.iiiLISTOFFIGURESFigure1:Giuliano&Redfearn’s(2007,p.2946,fig.3c)mapofranked8‘10-10’employmentcentersinLosAngeles.Figure2:Redfearn’s(2007,p.533,fig.9)mapofemploymentcentersin8LosAngeles.Figure3:Greene’s(2008,p.141,fig.1)mapofranke

7、demployment9centersinLosAngeles.Figure4:Author’sphotographofthecityscapealongthebaseofthe14SantaMonicaMountainsfromthePacificOceantoDowntownLosAngeles;photographedfromtheKennethHahnStateRecreationArea