Causality in the Suburbanization of Population and Employment

Thurston, Lawrence; Yezer, Anthony M.

doi:10.1006/juec.1994.1006

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“…This is a complex subject with inherent multi-causality: jobs follow people and people follow jobs. The evidence on this is far from unequivocal (Steinnes 1982;Thurston and Yezer 1994). Recent findings do seem to point to the former: jobs follow people and the demand of the latter for suburban lifestyles determines the extent of suburbanization (Glaeser and Kahn 2001).…”

Section: High Technology Location and Urban Sprawlmentioning

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Do high technology agglomerations encourage urban sprawl?

Felsenstein¹

2002

The Annals of Regional Science

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Abstract. This paper looks at the impact of high technology employment concentrations on urban sprawl. A methodology for translating spatial employment patterns, into place of residence patterns, is presented. On this basis, the consumption of land at the urban fringe due to both residential and nonresidential uses, is estimated. The method is tested empirically using data relating to the two main outer suburban agglomerations of high technology activity in the Chicago metropolitan area. Two counter-factual situations are simulated. The first relates to a spatial counter-factual whereby the high tech concentrations develop in the city of Chicago or within the inner suburbs. The second presents an industry counter-factual that estimates the land consumption impacts arising from the development of an alternative industrial concentration in the same location. The results of the actual and hypothetical cases are compared. They point to a considerable saving in acreage in all alternative scenarios. Some policy implications are highlighted.

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Section: High Technology Location and Urban Sprawlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do high technology agglomerations encourage urban sprawl?

Felsenstein¹

2002

The Annals of Regional Science

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“…First of all, we introduce an equation for growth of the housing stock as in Greenwood (1980) and Greenwood and Stock (1990). Second, as the regions in our data are not closed in terms of commuting, 3 See for instance Steinnes (1977), Carlino and Mills (1987), Boarnet (1994), Luce (1994), Thurston and Yezer (1994), Deitz (1998), or more recently Boarnet et al (2005). An overview of this literature is provided in White (1999), who concludes that empirical studies have tended to find that jobs follow people, while people do not follow jobs.…”

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Does land use planning shape regional economies? A simultaneous analysis of housing supply, internal migration and local employment growth in the Netherlands

Vermeulen

Ommeren

2009

Journal of Housing Economics

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“…Centralization is assessed through the distance-decay density gradient on the assumption that any CMA whose distance-decay density profile exhibits a statistically significant relationship between distance from the CBD and population density is one wherein the CBD continues to exert influence over the rest of the urbanized territory (e.g. Brueckner, 1981;Thurston and Yezer 1994). Steepness of slope is a related indicator of centralization.…”

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Changing Patterns of Residential Centrality : Population and Household Shift in Large Canadian CMAs, 1971-1996.

Bunting

Filion²,

Priston³

2005

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Cet article se penche sur l'évolution, entre 1971 et 1996, des régions métropolitaines canadiennes dont la population atteint ou excède 500 000 personnes. Il se sert de gradients mesurant la densité résidentielle ainsi que des changements de population dans différentes zones d'urbanisation afin d'illustrer les tendances ayant trait à la centralité résidentielle au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années. Cette recherche indique que toutes les régions métropolitaines analysées ont connu, avec divers degrés d'intensité, une tendance à la décentralisation. Lorsque les changements de population dans le centre-ville et les quartiers centraux sont considérés de pair avec un nivellement des gradients de densité, seule Vancouver montre des signes incontestables de recentralisation. Trois autres régions, Toronto, Victoria et Calgary, jouissent aussi d'une hausse de population dans leurs quartiers centraux. Bien que souffrant d'une forte baisse de population, la densité de ces secteurs demeure élevée à Montréal et Québec. Leur centralité est cependant résiduelle, legs des fortes densités du passé. La prise en compte des ménages plutôt que des résidents montre que toutes les régions métropolitaines examinées dans cette recherche ont fait l'objet de nouvelles constructions dans leurs secteurs centraux. Selon les données employées, nous observons une décentralisation ou une certaine centralisation des régions métropolitaines. La principale conclusion de cet article est que la recentralisation des régions métropolitaines est fortement associée à leur prospérité et à leur taux de croissance.The research focuses on Canadian CMAs with populations of 500 000 or greater over the period 1971-1996. It uses population density gradients and enumeration of population and household shift to assess changing patterns of residential centrality over the twenty-five year period. Results indicate that all of the CMAs examined have experienced continued outward dispersion, some more so than others. When population change in core and inner-city zones is examined in conjunction with reduced density gradients, only one Canadian metropolitan area, Vancouver, shows indisputable signs of strong recentralization. Three other CMAs, Toronto, Victoria and Calgary, also experience some re-population of their central parts, while Montréal and Québec City are shown to maintain what we call "residual" centrality. However, when recentralization is gauged using household enumeration instead of population counts, all of the places studied show evidence of new housing production in the central city. The answer to the central question regarding residential centrality is thus a mixed one, yes and no. Overall, we conclude that there is a direct link between evolutionary patterns within the national urban System and changes observed in residential centrality. Whatever the measure used, highest rates of recentralization accompany strong metropolitan-wide growth over the 25-year period

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Causality in the Suburbanization of Population and Employment

Cited by 88 publications

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Do high technology agglomerations encourage urban sprawl?

Do high technology agglomerations encourage urban sprawl?

Does land use planning shape regional economies? A simultaneous analysis of housing supply, internal migration and local employment growth in the Netherlands

Changing Patterns of Residential Centrality : Population and Household Shift in Large Canadian CMAs, 1971-1996.

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