Abstract
Economic restructuring has led to the emergence of new socio-economic arrangements in cities based on the cognitive-cultural economy. Furthermore, the arrival of new middle classes in inner-cities has contributed to a renaissance of interest in urban culture and new consumption spaces. Focusing on specialty coffee bars (SCBs), the study explores their spatial patterns and spatial distributions in Amsterdam in order to find the spatial correlations between new urban consumption spaces and their locational economic strategies in terms of the cognitive-cultural opportunities. By employing geographic information system (GIS), the findings suggest a positive spatial correlation between urban areas involved in the cognitive-cultural economy and the concentration of SCBs. Although the argued correlation does not imply causation, it provides distinct insights related to the interconnectedness of new urban consumption spaces and their contextual urban economy. The paper also slightly touches upon some of the capabilities of GIS in the field of urban studies and poses some questions for further investigations.
Highlights
There is an intimate relationship between urbanisation and capitalism
By employing geographic information system (GIS), the findings suggest a positive spatial correlation between urban areas involved in the cognitivecultural economy and the concentration of specialty coffee bars (SCBs)
The other way around, in areas such as Diamantbuurt, Van Lennepbuurt and Da Costabuurt with less engagement with the new economy the number of SCBs shrinks. Taken this method as well as the aforementioned analyses into account, the results suggest that there is a relationship between the cognitive-cultural economy and the spatial concentration of SCBs
Summary
There is an intimate relationship between urbanisation and capitalism. In other words, every historical phase of capitalism has its own distinctive urban form with its own corresponding, unique, type of urban living (Scott, 2008). Whilst scale is the geographical level at which any phenomenon of interest is experienced, observed and organised, zoning is defined as the spatial unit at which states and outcomes are represented or issues are analysed In this light, multiscalar as well as multizonal analyses via GIS help to investigate the spatial patterns between SCBs and their urban context in terms of economic opportunities in Amsterdam in order to give the best possible answer to the research questions. Multiscalar as well as multizonal analyses via GIS help to investigate the spatial patterns between SCBs and their urban context in terms of economic opportunities in Amsterdam in order to give the best possible answer to the research questions In this respect, the study uses the socio-economic data in the predefined areas in which the districts and wider neighbourhoods have been defined by the municipality of Amsterdam. The final step of the study examines the relationships between SCBs and economic opportunities. via applying a holistic fashion and putting SCBs in a broader context, this stage brings the overall economic composition of each wider neighbourhood into account and attempts to establish links between the spatial concentration of SCBs in specific wider neighbourhoods and the dominant economic regime of that wider neighbourhood
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