Office location
Subtitle: an urban and regional study
By: P. W. Daniels.
Series: Urban and social geography series
Publisher: G. Bell
Published: 1975
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Offices -- Location.; Offices -- Location -- England -- London.
First sentence: The office building has come to replace the factory as the symbol of contemporary urban economic development.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 226-233.
Includes index.
Table of contents: label: I
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: The neglect of office studies
pagenum: 2; label: 2
title: Some reasons for the neglect of office studies
pagenum: 3; label: 3
title: Defining an office
pagenum: 4; label: 4
title: Outline of the book
pagenum: 5; label: II
title: Genesis of the Office
pagenum: 8; label: 6
title: Before the industrial revolution
pagenum: 8; label: 7
title: The effect of the industrial revolution
pagenum: 9; label: 8
title: Office mechanization
pagenum: 10; label: 9
title: Advent of office computers
pagenum: 13; label: 10
title: Office buildings
pagenum: 17; label: 11
title: Skyscrapers
pagenum: 19; label: III
title: The Growth of Office Employment
pagenum: 26; label: 12
title: Blue-collar/white-collar
pagenum: 26; label: 13
title: Office employment by occupation
pagenum: 27; label: 14
title: Clerical workers and office employment growth
pagenum: 31; label: 15
title: Growth rate variations between industries
pagenum: 35; label: 16
title: Role of female office workers
pagenum: 39; label: 17
title: Growth of office work in individual organizations
pagenum: 41; label: 18
title: Impact of computers on office employment
pagenum: 44; label: IV
title: The Supply of Office Floorspace
pagenum: 52; label: 19
title: Availability of floorspace data
pagenum: 52; label: 20
title: Trends in supply
pagenum: 54; label: 21
title: Factors influencing supply
pagenum: 57; label: a
title: Finance; label: b
title: The rle of developers; label: c
title: Vacancy rates; label: d
title: Conversion and demolition; label: e
title: Scale; label: 22
title: Planning controls
pagenum: 64; label: 23
title: Over-supply problems
pagenum: 67; label: V
title: The Demand for Office Floorspace
pagenum: 71; label: VI
title: Regional Patterns of Office Location
pagenum: 92; label: VII
title: Intra-Urban Office Location
pagenum: 115; label: 38
title: Parallels with location of manufacturing industry
pagenum: 115; label: 39
title: Intra-urban office location: some empirical evidence
pagenum: 117; label: 40
title: Haig's contribution to office location studies
pagenum: 121; label: 41
title: More recent contributions
pagenum: 122; label: 42
title: Office centrality and type of industry
pagenum: 125; label: 43
title: Intra-C.B.D. office location dynamics
pagenum: 128; label: VIII
title: Communications and Office Location
pagenum: 133; label: 44
title: Some empirical evidence
pagenum: 134; label: 45
title: Contact studies
pagenum: 141; label: 46
title: Types of contact
pagenum: 142; label: 47
title: Relative roles of types of contact
pagenum: 143; label: 48
title: Indices of contact
pagenum: 148; label: 49
title: Multi-variate classification of contact patterns
pagenum: 150; label: 50
title: Effect of loation change on office communications
pagenum: 152; label: 51
title: Comparability of office communication studies
pagenum: 154; label: 52
title: Communications and the future location of office activity
pagenum: 154; label: IX
title: Office Location: Forces for Change
pagenum: 160; label: 53
title: Defining 'decentralization'
pagenum: 160; label: 54
title: Sources of data
pagenum: 161; label: 55
title: Pressures at the centre
pagenum: 162; label: 56
title: Regional background to British decentralization policies
pagenum: 163; label: 57
title: London's office problems
pagenum: 165; label: 58
title: Inaccurate assumptions?
pagenum: 168; label: 59
title: Policy changes
pagenum: 170; label: 60
title: Economics of decentralization
pagenum: 172; label: X
title: The Pattern of Decentralization
pagenum: 177; label: 61
title: Commercial office decentralization
pagenum: 177; label: 62
title: Government office decentralization
pagenum: 181; label: 63
title: Characteristics of decentralized offices
pagenum: 185; label: 64
title: Office decentralization in the United States
pagenum: 189; label: XI
title: The Impact of Changing Office Location Patterns
pagenum: 194; label: XII
title: Conclusions
pagenum: 220