LAND RENT IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT OF A CITY AS A KEY FACTOR OF SOCIAL SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

This article summarizes different approaches to investigation of land rent in the central place system e.g. in the business district of a large city or agglomeration as a key factor of social service development. The main purpose of the study is increase of profitability and competitiveness of service enterprises due to improvement of their location in the business district centre. Systematization of literature sources and approaches to solving the problem of land rent in central business district development allowed to single out the works of domestic scientists such as Tkachenko T. I., Drapikovskyi O. I., Ivanova O. O., Gritsai O. V., Vakulenko V. M., Dekhtiarenko Yu. F., Zakharchenko V. I., Litvinenko R. I., as well as researches of foreign scientists such as Fujita M, Thisse J.-F., Henderson V., Herbert Giersch. The urgency of solving this scientific problem is that land rent in central place system e.g. in the business district of a large city became the main driver of service sector development. The study of land rent development in the article is carried out in the following logical sequence: land rental development of trade objects in a monocentric city, retail locations, rent for trade in episodic demand goods, rent for trade in goods of constant demand, the main feature of the trading enterprises rent investigation, residential land rent of a city, two rent types of residential development estimation, rent function with replacement of production factors instead of output or rent gradient investigation. Methodical tools of the conducted research are methods of formalization, algorithm development, descriptive, analytical and synthetic. The object of the study is land rent development in the central business district of a large city or agglomeration. The article presents the results of an empirical analysis of land rent development in the central business district, which showed its influence on service sector location and growth. The study empirically confirms and theoretically proves procedures of land rent estimation for increasing profitability and competitiveness of service enterprises due to improvement of their location. The results of this study may be useful for different Tourism and Service Companies looking for the best location place in the central business district of a large city.

Containment and connectivity in Dutch urban systems: A network-analytical operationalization of the three-systems model.

This paper discusses central methodological issues with nodalizing interaction data of urban networks to produce a state-of-the-art settlement geography of the Netherlands. We operationalize the three-systems model that understands functional settlement geographies through the interaction between the daily urban system, the central place system and the export base system. We utilize theoretically-informed selections of spatial interactions derived from travel survey data at the finely-grained postcode level. After examining the methodological challenge of the node-inclusivity dilemma, we estimate the causal mechanisms that geographically structure each system and determine which spatial interactions should be assigned to nodes (containment) and edges (connectivity). The three systems produce different regionalizations that are neither mutually exclusive nor perfectly nested. Further analysis of the multiplexity of the three systems reveals the importance of the imbricated boundaries between the urban subsystems. We argue that these interplaces deserve more attention as they are particularly sensitive to changes in urbanization trends.

The capital agglomeration of the Republic of Korea as a fuzzy central place system

Explosive urbanization in the Republic of Korea from 1950 to 2010 marked by a growth in extensive urban agglomerations rendered unproductive the approach that was commonly used in the central place theory and which considered every element of the settlement system as a point in a homogeneous space. The paper suggests an alternative concept of fuzzy central place that makes possible the understanding of an internal heterogeneity in the distribution of central functions within the limits of urban agglomerations. This research was conducted using the example of the Capital agglomeration - the main element of the Republic of Korea’s urban settlement system. This “island” country, isolated by North Korea, has seen fantastic economic growth in the second half of the 20th century.