Rural-Urban Locational Preferences of Southern Manufacturers

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8375337
AutoresRichard E Lonsdale (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Clyde E Browning (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Ano1971
Volume61
Fascículo2
Páginas255-268
Data de publicação1971-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8306.1971.tb00781.x
OpenAlexW2058504193
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas1

An understanding of the rural-urban preferences of manufacturers is important for those concerned with alleviating regional imbalances in income levels and job opportunities. Unfortunately, studies of the locational tendencies of manufacturing plants on a regional scale have generally used counties or states as areal units. To avoid this coarse areal screen, a mail survey of the rural-urban locational preferences of manufacturing plants in ten Southern states was conducted. Southern plants are much more oriented to small towns and rural areas than is true nationally, and this tendency is becoming even more pronounced, but there is considerable variation among the ten states studied. Light industry was found in cities more often than heavy industry; however, many of the newer plants, regardless of industry type, were located outside municipal boundaries

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