Transport Development and Building Cycles

Walter Isard

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1942, vol. 57, issue 1, 90-112

Abstract: Introduction, 90. — I. Innovations in transport technology and geographic location, 91. — Effect upon population movements, 93. — Upon building, 93.— The timing of innovations in transportation, 94. — Influence of rate structures, 95. — Effects upon consumer behavior, 96. — Influence of monetary conditions, 97. — II. Character of the statistical data, 98. — Six cycles in building and in transport development revealed, 101. —III. The impact of transport development upon building in Ohicago,107. — IV. Implications for future transport developments and building booms, 111.

Date: 1942
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