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DELIMITING THE POSTMODERN URBAN CENTER:
AN ANALYSIS OF URBAN AMENITY CLUSTERS IN LOS ANGELES
by
Samuel Glendening Krueger
________________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF SCIENCE
(GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)
August 2012
Copyright 2012 Samuel Glendening Krueger
Object Description
| Title | Delimiting the postmodern urban center: an analysis of urban amenity clusters in Los Angeles |
| Author | Krueger, Samuel Glendening |
| Author email | skrueger@usc.edu;sam.krueger@alumni.usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Science |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Geographic Information Science and Technology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-06-13 |
| Date submitted | 2012-07-13 |
| Date approved | 2012-07-13 |
| Restricted until | 2012-07-13 |
| Date published | 2012-07-13 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kemp, Karen K. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Wilson, John P. Ethington, Philip J. |
| Abstract | An analysis of urban morphology in the Los Angeles metropolitan area was conducted. Specifically, Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA) were used to identify clusters of different types of urban amenities. A centrality score was calculated for every location based on the number of spatially coincident clusters, which was used to delimit the central place. ❧ The methodology, which was validated in the Chicago and New York metropolitan areas, employed multiple regular hexagonal arrays into which amenity location points were aggregated. These arrays, whose results were combined for a final analysis output, mitigated against the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) and revealed urban structures operating at multiple scales. ❧ Prevailing methods for delimiting urban centrality tend to reduce urban place to a monetary space by focusing on employment centers, commuting patterns, or ‘central’ land uses in order to identify a downtown or a Central Business District (CBD). This study elevates the experience of place within urban structure to identify an ambiguously bounded and internally inconsistent central place: a postmodern urban center. ❧ The study reveals both polycentrism and a strong core center in Los Angeles. The core center, called the Wilshire/Santa Monica Corridor, is delimited in detail. |
| Keyword | urban morphology; urban geography; geographic information science (GIS); urban structure; urban amenities; urban center; central business district (CBD); local indicators of spatial association (LISA); Los Angeles; modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Krueger, Samuel Glendening |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-KruegerSam-952.pdf |
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| Full text | DELIMITING THE POSTMODERN URBAN CENTER: AN ANALYSIS OF URBAN AMENITY CLUSTERS IN LOS ANGELES by Samuel Glendening Krueger ________________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF SCIENCE (GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Samuel Glendening Krueger |
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