New suburban communities have sprung up all over America, while
industrial plants and other commercial districts in the inner city
have been left to decay. Nowhere is this more evident than the
midwestern United States, where newly formed communities have
funneled jobs and income from the inner city. Generally known as
sprawl, the problem is particularly acute in those metropolitan
areas where deconcentration is taking place -- decline in the
central city coupled with suburban growth. This process creates
benefits in the suburbs, but also increasingly poses costs in the
form of congestion and growing infrastructure costs. When
Corporations Leave Town develops a consistent and comprehensive
cost-benefit analysis of employment deconcentration, focusing on
central cities and their suburbs.
Sprawl and deconcentration have become big issues in Vice
President Albert Gore's presidential campaign, and are the subject
of a growing number of policy initiatives, conferences, and
research by organizations such as the Urban Land Institute, the
National Homebuilders Association, and the Brookings Institute.
Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel compare the costs and benefits of a
firm's locating in the central city with locating in the suburbs.
They use a hypothetical model of a large manufacturing plant and a
business services office in the Chicago metropolitan area to
calculate tangible and intangible costs such as population and
traffic congestion, air pollution, housing abandonment, loss of
farmland, tax liabilities, and the strain put on suburban public
resources. Wiewel and Persky then explore a broad range of public
policies advocated for reversing or mitigating metropolitan
deconcentration.
WhenCorporations Leave Town presents new and challenging
arguments and solutions surrounding the current political debates
about deconcentration. This book will interest policy analysts and
students and scholars of urban studies, urban economics, urban
geography, and regional planning.
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