Economic Restructuring of Cities, Suburbs, and Nonmetropolitan Areas, 1977-1992

Bibliographic Data

ID6404875
AuthorsAnnette Steinacker (Claremont Graduate University, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume34
Issue2
Pages212-240
Publication date1998-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/107808749803400202
OpenAlexW2032577786
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited10

Earlier research on the impact of national economic restructuring on central-city economies suffered from several problems, including excessive aggregation of the data and reliance on absolute change in economic activity to measure growth. When these factors are corrected, one sees that central cities frequently attracted more new firms than other locations (absolute growth), but their growth rate was below that in suburbs and nonmetropolitan areas (relative growth) as well as the national rate. These below-average rates occurred in many of the 13 economic sectors studied, including low-skill and high-skill services, in which central cities were expected to perform well. The few bright spots—central cities in the South and West, which initially outperformed all other locations in those regions—have faded as well

Central city · Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic restructuring · Economics · Geography · Restructuring · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Finance