The orderliness hypothesis: The correlation of rail and housing development in London

Author: Levinson, David

Source: The Journal of Transport History, Volume 29, Number 1, March 2008 , pp. 98-114(17)

Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Abstract:

Network growth is a complex phenomenon. Some have suggested that it occurs in an orderly or rational way, based on the size of the places that are connected. David Levinson examines the order in which stations were added to the London surface rail and Underground rail networks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, testing the extent to which order correlates with population density. While population density is an important factor in explaining order, he shows that other factors were at work. The network itself helps to reshape land uses, and a network that may have been well ordered at one time may drift away from order as activities relocate.

Keywords: TRANSPORT AND LAND USE; LONDON UNDERGROUND; NETWORK GROWTH; RAILWAYS

Document Type: Research article

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