Nearest-neighbor distributions of economic and administrative structures in capital cities of the Philippines
Abstract
Urbanization in cities corresponds to the increase in economic and administrative facilities. Empirically, it has been found that there exists a positive correlation between population and facility density. In the present work, we investigate how the administrative and economic buildings are distributed in representative cities in Metro Manila. Our empirical analysis shows that administrative buildings tend to scatter, with separation distances in the order of 102 m while economic facilities tend to cluster, at around 10−1 m. Analysis of the distance probability distributions shows that administrative buildings are highly dependent on the location, while economic buildings have comparable statistics regardless of actual locations.
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