Energy-Price Effects on Metropolitan Spatial Structure and Form
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 10 (1) , 93-104
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a100093
Abstract
This paper is concerned with possible changes in the metropolitan structure and form under conditions of energy-conservation efforts by households and firms. Across-the-board increases in energy prices, combined with the on-going process of employment relocation from the central city to the suburban ring of metropolitan areas, could lead to major, and potentially more energy-conserving spatial reorganizations. By use of a utility analysis of the residential location decision by households, this reorganization is shown to take the form of a multinucleated urban system with a number of strong urban nuclei playing rhe role of employment centers for the suburban residential area surrounding them.Keywords
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