The Central Business District: A Study in Urban Geography

ISBN-13: 9780202309583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 202 str.

Raymond E. Murphy

Opis

The rapidly changing structure of urban social and economic activity in recent years has given rise to a great deal of concern regarding the fate of that area of the city where economic activity is chiefl y concentrated: the central business district (CBD). This book, a geographic study of the changing nature of CBDs, represents a concise, well-ordered, and readable attempt to deal with that concern. Written by a widely known authority on the subject, it provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of much of the research done on CBDs over the past two decades and establishes many striking generalizations regarding the past, present, and future evolutions of CBDs, both in this country and abroad.

Spis treści

1: Introduction the CBD; 2: Preliminary Attempts at Delimitation; 3: The Central Business Index Technique; 4: Some Tentative Generalizations; 5: Cape Town’s CBD; 6: Other Applications Abroad; 7: The Census Bureau’s CBD; 8: External Relationships of the CBD; 9: Other Facets of the Downtown; 10: CBD and Suburbs in Competition; 11: The Changing CBD; 12: The CBD and the Future

O autorze

Raymond E. Murphy