City-systems in Advanced Economies
Subtitle: Past Growth, Present Processes and Future Development Options
By: Allan Pred
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics; Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics -- Volume 18
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781315103136
Subjects: Urban economics; Cities and towns; Growth; Économie urbaine; Villes; Croissance; Urban sprawl; Suburban growth; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Economics; General; Reference
Notes: "Originally published in 1977. This book provides answers to two fundamental and interrelated questions about the modern city. First, what are the processes underlying the past and present growth of 'post-industrial' metropolitan complexes and the economically advanced city-systems to which they belong? Second, what are the implications of on-going growth for efforts to reduce interregional inequalities of employment opportunity? The first section of the book introduces the basic concepts such as the properties of systems of cities. It then provides an analysis of their growth in advanced economies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and looks to further possibilities."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; A note to the reader; 1 Basic problems and basic concepts; Introduction; Selected basic concepts; 2 Past growth: information circulation and channels of interdependence; The long-term rank stability of leading metropolitan complexes; Interurban information circulation and trade in the US before the telegraph; Large-city rank stability and city-system development in the pretelegraphic US: a model; City-system growth and development during periods of initial modern industrialization.; title: 3 Present processes of change: multilocational organizations and the interurban transmission of growthThe growing role of multilocational organizations in city-system interdependence; The spatial structure of multilocational organizations; Headquarters concentration and interurban growth transmission; Other views of city-system interdependence and interurban growth transmission in advanced economies; On the specification of interurban growth-transmission channels; Empirical evidence from selected metropolitan complexes of the western United States; Swedish empirical evidence.; title: Other empirical findings on interurban growth transmissionMultilocational organizations and city-system growth and development in advanced economies: a model; 4 Future development options: office activities, services and the quality of life; The manufacturing option; The office and business-service activity option; Boise revisited: a case example of the viability of high level administrative functions in smaller metropolitanareas; Other alternatives and issues; The quality of life and service availability; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Index.