City-Systems in Advanced Economies - Past Growth, Present Processes and Future Development Options

Originally published in 1977. This book offers answers to two interrelated questions about the modern city relating to the processes underlying the past and present growth of 'post-industrial' metropolitan complexes and their economically advanced city-systems, and efforts to reduce interregional inequalities of employment opportunity.

List of contents

1. Basic Problems and Basic Concepts 2. Past Growth: Information Circulation and Channels of Interdependence 3. Present Processes of Change: Multilocational Organizations and the Interurban Transmission of Growth 4. Future Development Options: Office Activities, Services and the Quality of Life

Summary

Originally published in 1977. This book offers answers to two interrelated questions about the modern city relating to the processes underlying the past and present growth of ‘post-industrial’ metropolitan complexes and their economically advanced city-systems, and efforts to reduce interregional inequalities of employment opportunity.

Product details

• Authors: Allan Pred, Pred Allan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138032200
• ISBN: 978-1-138-03220-0
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics; Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban & municipal planning, urban economics, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Industrialized / Developed Countries, Global North / Industrialized or developed countries, Regional / urban economics, Urban communities / city life