City Size and Transportation Costs

Borukhov, Eli

doi:10.1086/260114

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“…Borukhov explains that "the total costs of transportation in a city depend on the pattern, or spatial distribution, of the population in the city. If a lot of people live near the center, transportation costs will be less than if more people lived further out" (5). The transport motive, however, is not sufficient for spontaneous agglomeration (4).…”

Section: City-shaping Forcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decentralization in the Hartford, Connecticut, Metropolitan Region, 1900-2000

Baird

Garrick

2004

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Decentralization, the intrametropolitan movement of people and activity away from dense centers toward less developed suburbs, occurs when dispersive forces are greater than agglomerative forces for any metropolitan area. Two mathematical tools, the regional dispersion index and the Hoover index, are used to measure the movement of population, employment, and retail activity in the Hartford, Connecticut, metropolitan region from 1900 to 2000. The approach used differs from other research in that it does not assume a parametric density function, and it allows decentralization for a multicentered region to be measured. Between 1900 and 1930, population concentrated toward Hartford and other regional centers. The trend reversed around 1940, and for the remainder of the century population decentralized away from both Hartford and regional centers. Economic activity bore the same overall pattern with a lag. The results presented here are consistent with existing theories of decentralization and previous empirical work.

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Section: City-shaping Forcesmentioning

confidence: 99%