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Where is the consumer centre? A case of St. Petersburg

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  • Konstantin Kholodilin
  • Irina Koroleva
  • Darya Kryutchenko

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In an urban economy, the distribution of people and real estate prices depends on the location of the central business district of a city. As distance from the city centre increases, both prices and population density diminish, for travel costs increase in terms of time and money. As manufacturing gradually leaves the cities, the importance of consumer amenities as attractors of population to the urban areas increases. The role of a business centre is being replaced by the consumer centre. In this paper, we identify the location of the consumer centre of St. Petersburg — the second largest city in Russia and its former capital. For this purpose using the data from open sources in the Internet regarding the location of many different types of urban amenities, the indices of their spatial density are computed. Using the weights based on coefficients of spatial variation and survey‐based weights, the individual indices are aggregated to two general centrality indices. Their unique maxima correspond to the city centre of St. Petersburg, which is located on Nevsky prospekt, between Fontanka river and Liteinyi prospekt. En una economía urbana, la distribución de las personas y de los precios de los bienes inmuebles depende de la ubicación del distrito financiero central de una ciudad. A medida que aumenta la distancia al centro de la ciudad, tanto los precios como la densidad de población disminuyen, mientras que los costos de viaje aumentan en términos de tiempo y dinero. A medida que el sector de manufacturas abandona gradualmente las ciudades, la importancia de los servicios de consumo aumenta como un factor de atracción de la población a las zonas urbanas. El papel de un centro financiero está siendo reemplazado por el de un centro de consumo. En este artículo se identifica la ubicación del centro de consumo de San Petersburgo, la segunda ciudad más grande de Rusia y su antigua capital. Para ello se calcularon los índices de la densidad espacial de muchos tipos diferentes de servicios urbanos, utilizando datos sobre su ubicación de fuentes de Internet abiertas al público. Se utilizaron ponderaciones basadas en los coeficientes de variación espacial y ponderaciones basadas en un muestreo para poder agregar los índices individuales a dos índices generales de centralidad. Su máxima corresponde al centro de la ciudad de San Petersburgo, que se encuentra en la Avenida Nevsky, entre el río Fontanka y la Avenida Liteinyi. 都市経済では、人口分布及び土地価格はその都市の中心業務地区の立地に依存する。都市中心部からの距離が増加するにつれて、物価と人口密度は低下し、移動にかかる時間と交通費は増加する。製造業が徐々に都市部から離れるにつれて、都市地域への人口の誘因としての消費者アメニティの重要性が増している。経済の中心地としての役割は消費者センターに取って代わられようとしている。本稿では、ロシア第二の大都市であり、かつての首都であるサンクトペテルブルクの消費者センターの立地を検討する。この目的のために、インターネット上のオープンソースから得られる、様々なタイプの都市アメニティの立地に関するデータを用いて、アメニティの空間密度の指標を計算する。空間変動係数に基づく重みと調査に基づく重みを用いて、個々の指標を一般的な2つの中心性指標に集約した。サンクトペテルブルクの中心部に対応するユニークな極大値は、ネフスキー大通りの、フォンタンカ川とリチェイニ大通りに挟まれたところに位置する。

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  • Konstantin Kholodilin & Irina Koroleva & Darya Kryutchenko, 2022. "Where is the consumer centre? A case of St. Petersburg," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 14(4), pages 916-938, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:14:y:2022:i:4:p:916-938
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12307
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