“EDGE” OR “EDGELESS” CITIES? URBAN SPATIAL STRUCTURE IN U.S. METROPOLITAN AREAS, 1980 TO 2000*

Bumsoo Lee

Journal of Regional Science, 2007, vol. 47, issue 3, 479-515

Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper presents a descriptive analysis of spatial trends in six U.S. metropolitan areas. The results show that generalized job dispersion was a more common spatial process than subcentering during the 1980s and 1990s when jobs continued to decentralize from the metropolitan core to the suburbs. Three distinctive patterns of spatial development were found. Job dispersion was predominant in Portland and Philadelphia, whereas the polycentricity of Los Angeles and San Francisco was further reinforced. New York and Boston with large and long‐established CBDs were less prone to decentralization. Each metro seems to have developed a unique pattern of decentralization in light of their histories and circumstances, which has limited the growth of commuting times.

Date: 2007
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