Metropolitan Growth and Intrametropolitan Location of Economic Activity: Trends and Policy Implications

摘要

The objectives of this report are: (1) to document major trends in patterns of urban growth and intraurban location with a view to identifying trend changes that might be of concern to policymakers; (2) to provide the Economic Development Administration with some idea of the specific metropolitan areas, and component central cities and suburban rings, that have experienced major reversals in employment, population, or income trends, or have experienced a notable acceleration in their rate of growth or decline; (3) to develop a rationale for public intervention to deal with problems associated with the spatial distribution of population and of economic activity; and (4) to identify specific places in which these problems appear to be of relatively great magnitude.