Energy-Price Effects on Metropolitan Spatial Structure and Form

M C Romanos
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M C Romanos: Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1978, vol. 10, issue 1, 93-104

Abstract: This paper is concerned with possible changes in the metropolitan structure and form under conditions of energy-conservation efforts by households and firms. Across-the-board increases in energy prices, combined with the on-going process of employment relocation from the central city to the suburban ring of metropolitan areas, could lead to major, and potentially more energy-conserving spatial reorganizations. By use of a utility analysis of the residential location decision by households, this reorganization is shown to take the form of a multinucleated urban system with a number of strong urban nuclei playing rhe role of employment centers for the suburban residential area surrounding them.

Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1068/a100093

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