City-Systems in Advanced Economies: Past Growth, Present Processes and Future Development Options

ISBN-13: 9781138102255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 254 str.

Allan Pred

Opis

Originally published in 1977. This book offers answers to two interrelated questions about the modern city relating to the processes underlying the past and present growth of ‘post-industrial’ metropolitan complexes and their economically advanced city-systems, and efforts to reduce interregional inequalities of employment opportunity.

Spis treści

1. Basic Problems and Basic Concepts 2. Past Growth: Information Circulation and Channels of Interdependence 3. Present Processes of Change: Multilocational Organizations and the Interurban Transmission of Growth 4. Future Development Options: Office Activities, Services and the Quality of Life

O autorze

Allan Pred