1st Edition

The New Suburbanization Challenge To The Central City

By Penny Peace, Thomas M Stanback Jr Copyright 1991
126 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

In this book fourteen large metropolitan economies are examined to show how industrial composition and jobs have changed in central cities and suburbs since 1970. Driven by the shift in emphasis from goods toward services, both central cities and suburbs have undergone dramatic changes. The analysis shows that many large central cities have experienced wrenching transformations as a result of low... Read more
The Eisenhower Center for the Conservation of Human Resources Studies in the New Economy -- Foreword -- The Changing Metropolis -- The Industrial Composition of Employment -- Earnings Levels -- Agglomeration Economies and the Development of Cities and Suburbs -- Population and Work Force Characteristics -- Problems in City and Suburban Labor Markets

Biography

Thomas M. Stanback, Jr., is senior research scholar, The Eisenhower Center for the Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University, and professor emeritus of economics at New York University.