1st Edition

The Central Business District A Study in Urban Geography

By Raymond E. Murphy Copyright 2007
202 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

199 Pages
by Routledge

The rapidly changing structure of urban social and economic activity in recent years has given rise to a great deal of concern regarding the fate of that area of the city where economic activity is chiefly concentrated: the central business district (CBD). This book, a geographic study of the changing nature of CBDs, represents a concise, well-ordered, and readable attempt to deal with that... Read more
1: Introduction the CBD; 2: Preliminary Attempts at Delimitation; 3: The Central Business Index Technique; 4: Some Tentative Generalizations; 5: Cape Town’s CBD; 6: Other Applications Abroad; 7: The Census Bureau’s CBD; 8: External Relationships of the CBD; 9: Other Facets of the Downtown; 10: CBD and Suburbs in Competition; 11: The Changing CBD; 12: The CBD and the Future

Biography

Raymond E. Murphy