2007
DOI: 10.1080/00420980701426640
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Intrametropolitan Employment Structure: Polycentricity, Scatteration, Dispersal and Chaos in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, 1996-2001

Abstract: There is little consensus on where and how employment is decentralising in metropolitan areas. However, a number of key processes have been brought to light, and different cities have tended to display different processes: strong CBDs, suburban polynucleation, job dispersal, scattering, edgeless cities and perhaps 'keno capitalism'. This paper explores the distribution and growth of employment at a fine spatial scale. It is shown that, at this scale, there are very dynamic processes of growth and decline throu… Show more

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“…The GTHA draws workers from beyond its boundaries since the number of workers in the region is less than the number of jobs. Suburbanization of employment is also observed in the region (Shearmur et al, 2007).…”
Section: Study Contextmentioning
confidence: 81%
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“…The GTHA draws workers from beyond its boundaries since the number of workers in the region is less than the number of jobs. Suburbanization of employment is also observed in the region (Shearmur et al, 2007).…”
Section: Study Contextmentioning
confidence: 81%
“…The population of the GTHA (5,574,140 in 2011) is constantly growing, primarily in the outer suburbs. In 2007, the region had 2,678,170 workers and 2,759,180 jobs (Shearmur et al, 2007). The GTHA draws workers from beyond its boundaries since the number of workers in the region is less than the number of jobs.…”
Section: Study Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such nonlinear and nonuniform evolution is also demonstrated in Shearmur et al's (2007) analysis of three Canadian metropolitan areas between 1996 and 2001; their findings lead them to recommend that inquiry should look beyond the "edge/edgeless" or "polycentricity/scatteration" dichotomies, in order to acknowledge that these phenomena and others (chaos versus order) are occurring at the same time and in the same places. (Shearmur et al, 2007(Shearmur et al, , p. 1733). Shearmur and Hutton (2011) reach a similar conclusion in a study of five Canadian metropolitan areas from 1981 to 1996, finding patterns that are anything but homogeneous in terms of employment distribution and growth trajectories.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is a general consensus that in recent decades a phenomenon of intrametropolitan employment decentralization has emerged 1 : the traditional CBD has lost importance as an employment center in relative terms and sometimes also in absolute terms (Shearmur, Coffey, Dube, & Barbonne, 2007). Where this employment deconcentration has led, however, is a question where agreement is more difficult to reach.…”
Section: Polycentricity and Beyondmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Only a few of them consider a temporal point of view, analyzing changes on urban form and the emergence of (more) polycentric Giuliano and Redfearn, 2007;Shearmur et al, 2007;GarciaLópez and Muñiz, 2011) and dispersed cities (Gordon and Richardson, 1996;Gordon et al, 1998;Pfister et al, 2000;Lang, 2003;Lee, 2007).…”
Section: Empirical Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%