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Title:
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Location of Co-Working Spaces in the city
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Author:
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Coll Martínez, Eva; Méndez Ortega, Carles,
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Other authors:
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia |
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Abstract:
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The present paper investigates the location patterns and the effects co-working spaces (CWS)
generate on the urban context. The focus is on Barcelona, one of the most important creative
hubs in Europe in terms of knowledge-based, creative, digital, and sharing economy, and the
city hosting the largest number of co-working spaces in Spain. The paper addresses three
main questions: 1) Which are the location patterns of co-working spaces in Barcelona? 2) Do
CWS agglomerate in the same areas? And, 3) Do CWS coagglomerate with specific firm
activities? To do that, this paper uses open data on Barcelona neighbourhoods’
socioeconomic composition provided by the Statistics Department of the Council of
Barcelona and micro-geographic data of private CWS and creative labs in Barcelona. By using
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Kd functions of agglomeration and
coagglomeration, results show that CWS are highly concentrated in central areas of Barcelona
where there are greater chances to meet customers and suppliers, the proximity to urban
amenities and the fact of being associated to an specific place-image. Moreover, they
coagglomerate with specific kinds of firms and to those most related to creative industries.
These results are relevant when assessing what it should be the actual goal of urban policies
in Barcelona.
Keywords: co-working spaces, distance-based methods, agglomeration, coagglomeration,
Barcelona.
JEL: R00, R39, Z00 |
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Publication date:
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2019 |
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Subject (UDC):
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332 - Economia regional i territorial. Economia del sòl i de la vivenda |
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Subject(s):
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Localització industrial
Barcelona |
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Rights:
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L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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Pages:
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25 p. |
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Document type:
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Working Paper |
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Published by:
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública
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Collection:
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Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2019-02
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