Field of work
Professor Dr. Scient. Akkelies van Nes is working at the Faculty of Engineering and Business, Department of Civil Engineering, at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, Norway.
Van Nes is a leading international Space Syntax expert. She was the chairwoman of the 5th International Space Syntax Symposium held in Delft 2005 (SpaceSyntax2005 (tudelft.nl)) and is the chairwoman for the 13th international Syntax Symposium in Bergen in 2022 (13th International Space Syntax Symposium - Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (hvl.no)). She also chaired the first international online space syntax PhD congress in June 2021, hosted by Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (1st International Space Syntax Phd Conference 21 June 2021 - Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (hvl.no))
Van Nes has been leading and involved in several international research projects related to mobility and network characteristics, such as revealing the relationship between space and energy use for transport, space and crime in neighbourhoods, street life, urban centres and economic development, applying space syntax in regenerating urban areas, developing theories on the relationship between urban space and urban sustainability. The core of her research activities is developing and applying various spatial analyses tools on built environments on various scale levels and test them on various socio-economic data, results from other research, and energy data. For more info: Space Syntax in Norway - Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (hvl.no)
Van nes has been involved in the following EU funded projects: RUFUS (rural future networks 2008-2012, NODES (New Tools for Design and Operation of Urban Transport Interchanges) 2012-2016 and SPACERGY (Space-Energy pattern for smart energy infrastructures, community reciprocities & related governance) 2016-2019.
van Nes applies space syntax in several different disciplines, such as archeology, architecture, urban geography, urban sociology, real estate development, criminology, strategic planning, urbanism, and road engineering. She is actively developing and using space syntax in research, consultancy and in teaching on built environments.
Current research topics:
Theory and method development of space syntax. Link: Sustainability | Special Issue : Space Syntax and the Sustainable City: Theory, Methods and Applications (mdpi.com)
Current teaching activities:
New textbook on the space syntax method in urban studies. Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-59140-3
Recent consultancy activities:
Application of space syntax in the densification strategies of Bergen municipality. Link: Sustainability | Free Full-Text | A Scientific Approach to the Densification Debate in Bergen Centre in Norway (mdpi.com)
- BYG130 Urban transformation
- MOA 256 Theory and methods of science
- MOA272 Urban planning
- MOA300 MSc thesis
- Development and application of the Space syntax method (homepage)
- Development of urban analyses methods
- Lively and safe neighborhoods
- Development of urban theories
- The physical conditions for sustainable cities
- The walking and cycling city
- Densification in urban areas
- Urban centrality and road and street building
- Transformation of urban areas
Publications
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Cultural heritage attractors: does spatial configuration matter? Applications of macro-and micro-spatial configurative analysis in the historic urban area of Rome
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Track 2. The City is an Object & A City is in Transition
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Investigating the spatial network of playgrounds during covid-19 based on a space syntax analysis case study: 10 playgrounds in Delft, the Netherlands
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Hvordan GIS-baserte analyser kan gi nyttig kunnskap til krevende planprosesser for fortetting
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Discovering the Axial Lines of Bunus River as a Social Network in Kampong Bharu using Space Syntax Analysis
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The Nordic Network of Urban Morphology (NNUM) – Urban form research in Scandinavia.
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Spatial and social segregation in Bergen. Spatial and social analyses of the neighbourhoods Laksevåg and Sandviken
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The natural route choice of bicyclists in Urban areas. Snail-trailing bicyclists in Bergen centre
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Strategies for sustainable densification along new light rail stops. Option testing with space syntax at Skjoldskiftet in Bergen, Norway
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The problem of implementing sustainable mobility means in average sized Norwegian Towns. Spatial analyses of Notodden and Førde
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Evaluating the state of Transit-Oreinted Development in Norway. The Node-Place-Design model and Form Syntax applied in the InterCity-Triangle in the Oslo Fjord Region
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Revitalisation of Mosterhamn. Spatial strategies for improving and old coastal village in Western Norway
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Densification and urban transformation with space syntax. A feasibility study for the Slettebakken neighbourhood in Bergen, Norway
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Applying space syntax in strategic planning of Grimstad town in Norway. A feasibility study
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Strategies for densification of Longyearbyen. Spatial, morphological, geological, and social analyses of the arctic town Longyearbyen in Norway
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Using space syntax to access accessibility of multi urban hubs and seamless mobility within the hubs. Case study Delft-Campus station
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Phenotypes and Genotypes of Traditional Norwegian Wooden Farms: Space Syntax Analyses of Norway’s Smallest Settlement Units
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Phenotypes and genotypes of traditional Norwegian Wooden farms. Space syntax analyses of Norway’s smallest settlement unit
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Space Syntax in spatial planning: A short introduction to its methods, theory development, and application in practice
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The Power of number 13
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The traditional half day DepthmapX workshop
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Proceedings 13th international space syntax symposium
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Bill Hillier’s legacy: Space syntax—a synopsis of basic concepts, measures, and empirical application
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Boliger for alle: Et tidsskille i norsk boligpolitikk
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Noise and spatial configuration in Biskra, Algeria: A space syntax approach to understand the built environment for visually impaired people
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Measuring the Degree of Permeability of the Main Route Network with Angular Step Depth Analyses
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Spatial configurations and walkability potentials. Measuring urban compactness with space syntax
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The impact of the ring roads on the location pattern of shops in town and city centres. A space syntax approach
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The 1rst international online space syntax PhD conference. Book of abstracts
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Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies
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Exploring challenges in Space Syntax theory building: The use of positivist and hermeneutic explanation models
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Fractals: a multiscale approach in regional and urban planning strategies
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A Scientific Approach to the Densification Debate in Bergen Centre in Norway
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Assessing Spatial Configurations and Transport Energy Usage for Planning Sustainable Communities
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Sexual violence in the city: Space, gender, and the occurrence of sexual violence in Rotterdam
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Fractal urban models and their potential for sustainable mobility
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Flat versus volumetric methodologies. Restructuring spatial analysis and other indices
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Segregation patterns in the street interface of the Brazilian city. Towards a method to read the effects of local spatial segregation
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How two divergent ideologies impact the location of functions in relation to spatial integration in arctic settlements
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Urban Space and Energy Usage
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#WomenSpatialActivism: Designing for the re-appropriation of public spaces by women in New Delhi, India
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The effects of new bypass roads on small Norwegian towns
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SPACERGY Space-Energy Patterns for Smart Energy Infrastructures, Community Reciprocities and Related Governance
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How children use urban space in two different neighbourhoods in Bergen, Norway
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The role of building entrances towards streets and the perception of safety in six neighbourhoods in Bergen
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Street networks as place of social interaction in culturally diverse neighbourhoods of Istanbul
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Depthmap workshop 12SSS
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Space Syntax. A scientific method to analyse urban space and spatial relationships independent on socio-economic data
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Space Syntax. Tools for analysing spatial and socio-economic potentials in urban space
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Various morphological analyses methods applied in teaching on BSc and MSc level
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Applied Mathematics on Urban Space
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Spatio-syntactical analysis and historical spatial potentials: The case of Jaffa-Tel Aviv
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Morphological analysis of settlements in the Arctic: a comparative analysis of four settlements with diverging ideologies on Svalbard
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Space Syntax – A method to measure urban space related to social, economic and cognitive factors
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Planning codes and the emergence of urban form
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Jane Jacobs gekwantificeerd
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Isovist analysis
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The application of modal logics for theory building in Urban Morphology and Space Syntax
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The materialisation of Jane Jacob's view "eyes in streets": Quantitative tools to measure adjacency, permeability and inter-visibility between buildings and streets
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Urban Micro Scale Tools: A method to measure the relationship between private and public space
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The socio-spatial development of Jaffa-Tel Aviv: The emergence and fade-away of ethnic divisions and distinctions
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An Integrated Modeling Approach Combining Multifractal Urban Planning with a Space Syntax Perspective
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Planning codes and the design of the street interface. Reading the impact of spatial configuration on street life using micro-scale tools
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Urban codes inducing street life, a possible approach for the Brazilian case
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Space and crime in North-African city of Annaba: Using Space Syntax to understand the strategy of offenders in the choice of location of street crime
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Spatial accessibility and commercial land use patterns. Planned versus unplanned areas in Cairo
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Towards safer greater Cairo. An investigation of Space and Sexual Harassment
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Diachronic assessment of cultural diversity in historic neighbourhoods using Space Syntax
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Depthmap workshop 11th international space syntax symposium
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Depthmap workshop in Biskra
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Space Syntax - challenges for theory building
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Space and crime in built environments
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Spatial improvement strategies for deprived neighbourhoods
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What is the explanatory power of Space Syntax theory? The application of modal logics from theory of science
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Strategies for integrated densification with urban qualities. Combining Space Syntax with building density, land usage, public transport and property rights in Bergen city
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Depthmap workshop
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Measuring Spatial Relationships in Past, Present and Future Built Environments
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Space Syntax. The role of Space between buildings
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Theory building in Space Syntax
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Spatial tools for diagnosing the degree of safety and liveability, and to regenerate urban areas in the Netherlands
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Commercial land use optimalization: Planned versus unplanned areas in Cairo.
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Designing Urban Spatial Vitality from Morphological Perspective - A Study Based on Quantified Urban Morphology and Activities Testing
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Spatial tools for diagnosing the degree of safety and liveability, and to regenerate urban areas in The Netherlands
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‘‘Form Syntax’’ as a contribution to geodesign: A morphological tool for urbanity-making in urban design
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Ethnic Groups and behaviour in Rotterdam's neighbouhoods
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The perceived safety and spatial behaviour in Three different neighbourhoods in Rotterdam
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Beyond informality: Traders as Space experts in their own informal settlements
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Space and protest: A tale of two Egyptian squares
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Understanding urban segregation in Cairo
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Quantitative Tools in urban morphology: combining Space syntax, spacematrix and mixed-use index in a GIS framework
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The spatial flaws of New towns: Morphological comparison between a Chinese New and old town through the Application of Space syntax, spacematrix and mixed use index
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Space Syntax in Theory and Practice
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A comprehensive spatial-social classification of 40 deprived neighbourhoods in the Netherlands
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Making Spatial Diagnosis in Combining Space Syntax, Spacematrix and MXI with GIS of New and Old Towns.
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Spatial-socio classification of deprived neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. Strategies for neighbourhood revitalisation
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How Space syntax can be applied in regenerating urban areas
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The socio-economic implications of the spatial configuration in greater Cairo Metropolitan area
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The spatial flaws of New towns
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Measuring urban maturation processes in Dutch and Chinese new towns: Combining street network configuration with building density and degree of land use diversification through GIS
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Between Heaven and Earth: Christian Norberg-Schulz's contribution to the phenomenology of place and architecture
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Het stratenpatroon als veiligheidsindicator: Over de waarde van ruimtelijke modelleringstechnieken voor planvorming in probleemwijken
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Measuring Spatial Visibility, Adjacency, Permeability, and Degrees of Street Life in Pompeii
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The one- and two-dimenstional isovists analyes in space syntax
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Macro and Micro Scale Spatial Variables and the Distribution of Residential Burglaries and Theft from Cars. An investigation of space and crime in the Dutch cities of Alkmaar and Gouda
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Ruimtelijke ordening als wapen tegen onveiligheid
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Dynamic urban centrality
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The Randstad utopia and its spatial reality / Various types of centralities and its contradictions with Dutch planning policies
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Space Syntax, een nieuwe tool in de box
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Realizing Rural Futures RUFUS (Rural Future Networks): EU Funded 7th Framework Project.
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Adjacency, permeability and inter-visibility. Micro scale spatial analyses tools for revealing the private-public space relationship and its impact on urban safety
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The heaven, the earth and the optic array: Norberg Schulz's place phenomenology and its degree of operationability
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Centrality and economic development in the Rijnland region
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Final discussion from the workshop week
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Housing in sensible urban areas - "Cursing in the Church".
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Research by design
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The Eastflank - gateway to Leiden
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The Valkenburg airport area
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The West Flank area and the Bio-science Park
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The new east-west infrastructure - the Rijnland route and the Rijn Gouwe Lijn
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The 5th City
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Research conclusions and challenges for interventions
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5th International Space Syntax Symposium Proceedings Volume 2
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5th International Space Syntax Symposium. Proceedings Volume 1
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Burglaries in the burglar's vicinity
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Space syntax: meten aan de ruimte
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Typology of shopping areas in Amsterdam
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Urban street grid and urban sustainability
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Welcome to the fifth international space syntax symposium
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How building typology influences the natural movement economic proces: micro spatial conditions on the dispersal of shops and cafés in Amsterdam and Berlin
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The location of advanced producer services and urban change: a space syntax approach