The Costs of Urban Sprawl: Some New Evidence
- 1 May 1985
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 17 (5), 661-666
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a170661
Abstract
A large national sample from the US 1977 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study is analyzed in order to test the transport economies that may result from the dispersion of work trip-ends. Based on indirect evidence that the largest metropolitan areas have the largest proportion of noncentral-city work trip-ends, we associate a variety of work-trip results for such cities with a polycentric urban form hypothesis. We claim that these results also suggest that decentralized settlement (‘sprawl’?) is not necessarily uneconomical.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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