Urban planning in office markets: a methodological approach

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2011

Authors

Emília Malcata Rebelo (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Land Use Policy

Vol. 28 No. 1

Pages: 83-95

ISSN: 0264-8377

Publisher: Elsevier

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Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Other social sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-Z2S

DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.05.003

Abstract (EN): This article stresses the importance of urban planning interventions on real estate office markets in an environment increasingly characterized by globalization processes and progress of information and communication technologies, leaving behind the traditional influence ofmoremarket-related variables spread abroad vast literature. It contends that a better indirect control exerted by municipal authorities may launch the performance and characteristics of these markets. Within this scope, an innovative methodology and model are proposed, aimed at assisting municipal decisions in the definition of strategic policies concerning location or relocation of offices, and respective influences over rents. This methodology and this model have a flexible ongoing character that fits the anytime concrete features of local office markets. They are applied, as a case study, to the office market of Oporto city (Portugal). Implications for urban policy are inferred and generalized from this analysis

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 13