Metropolitan growth: a spatial perspective on employment trends in the Perth metropolitan area 1966–76

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Rapid population growth and the increasing suburbanization of commercial and industrial activity have rendered traditional models of urban form increasingly obsolete. However, there is no general consensus as to whether suburbanization is leading to dispersal or multi‐nucleated urban forms. An analysis of changes in the distribution of employment in Perth during the period 1966–76 shows that both white and blue‐collar employment have indeed become increasingly suburbanized but that, with the exception of areas zoned industrial, secondary nodes of commercial activity have conspicuously failed to emerge. It appears that, in Australia, general dispersion rather than secondary concentration is the norm and that, without strong government initiatives, new metropolitan sub‐centres are unlikely to develop.

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