Buendia, L.; (2007) Retail shop distribution in interrupted orthogonal grids: The case of Tijuana. Masters thesis , UCL (University College London).

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Tijuana’s historic centre an it’s surroundings are studied to fi nd possible systematic relationships between the areas morphology and the distribution of retail shops. The study uses Space Syntax theoretical framework and syntactic and statistical analysis methodologies. The fi ndings suggest that Tijuana’s apparent unstructured and fragmented grid posses a certain logic. The study suggests that it is this logic that is operating during the process of shop location and distribution. At the global scale the confi guration is driven by the amount of connectivity that each isolated grid has with it’s neighbours. This process gives way to inequalities that create functional differentiations within the structure. At the local level, a systematic process brings together different geometric and syntactical properties and the ratio of shop potential or opportunity into a complex system where each variable plays an important role. In concludes by suggesting that it is the capacity of both the global and local processes to work together that ultimately determines the size and density of each shopping area.

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