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Spatial Layout, Entrepreneurship and Economic Prosperity

Can a place be hardwired to support entrepreneurial activity more than somewhere else? Could the way the place is physically designed bring people together to share their ideas and work proactively to develop new businesses and work towards social change? Would this make a place inherently more prosperous? If this was the case, then urban design could have an as yet unrecognised economic value. This paper presents research into how urban design can affect a community's ability to act entrepreneurially, investigated through an empirical analysis of the 155 district centres of Greater London. Using self-employment as a proxy for entrepreneurial activity, the analysis tests a potential relationship between self-employment and the spatial configuration of each centre. The research finds that while income shows the strongest relationship with self-employment, in certain low-income neighbourhoods spatial configuration becomes important. The paper concludes that places that provide the most variety, density and ...