The Spanish Cadastre: Office location, morphologies and dynamics in metropolitan Madrid

Abstract

As service activities have been gaining ground in the urban space and economy, the service sector has become an extremely attractive area of study, offices in particular, as they are the natural location for such activities. This paper firstly discusses and classifies the various sources of information used in the existing literature to study the metropolitan and urban identification and location of offices. Secondly, the paper adds the Spanish Cadastre as an alternative source of information because of its recent conversion to digital format, and applies it to the offices of the Madrilenian Urban Region.