Railways as a Factor of Change in the Distribution of Population in Spain, 1900--1970
The central focus of this work is to test a new methodology to measure the impact of the railway on the distribution of population, in this case in Spain. To achieve this, it was necessary to previously integrate data relating to population and railway lines into a geographical information system. The result was a spatial database that includes population data from homogeneous census series obtained for the municipal scale and the evolution of the railway network in service at corresponding points in time. This allowed the authors to apply spatial-temporal analysis. By so doing, this work constitutes an analysis of a new methodology, as they used exploratory spatial data analysis and geographically weighted regression to detect spatial patterns and estimate the influence of the railway and distance from the coast on population change. The results obtained show that the influence of the railway was very pronounced in some areas, while in others it was just one of the factors that could explain major changes in population distribution.
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2013
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Authors: | Franch, Xavi ; Morillas-Torné, Mateu ; MartÃ-Henneberg, Jordi |
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Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0161-5440. - Vol. 46.2013, 3, p. 144-156
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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