McCallum, James Douglas ; Wingo, Lowdon ; Thompson, Wilbur ; Richardson, H.W. ; Bergsman, Joel ; Greenston, Peter ; Healy, Robert ; Mills, Edwin S. ; Evans, Alan W.
Economic Research Relevant to the Formulation of National Urban Development Strategies, 1973, p.320-336
Thompson industries age and their technology matures, skill requirements fall and the industries become free to relocate in lower wage (lesser skill) areas. The higher a city stands on the industrial skill hierarchy, the younger its industries and the more likely it is to fashion an average rate of growth out of a fast-growing industry-mix and declining shares of that work -- the innovation of new work and the spinning-off of work that has become routine. The lower an urban area in the skill and: figures that currently serve as the basic data of "shift-share analysis. But the credibility that even casual reflection and observation lend to this hypothesis does seem to suggest that it would not be premature to give some thought to the implications that a national industry filtering process carries for national
McCallum, James Douglas ; Wingo, Lowdon ; Thompson, Wilbur ; Richardson, H.W. ; Bergsman, Joel ; Greenston, Peter ; Healy, Robert ; Mills, Edwin S. ; Evans, Alan W.
Economic Research Relevant to the Formulation of National Urban Development Strategies, 1973, p.172-172
Thompson Growth and Migration The Rate of Local Growth is the Change in City Size A national policy on the size distribution of cities that does not also incorporate a position on the rate of growth of local populations, that is, the rate of change in city size, would soon be obsolete. One might, in fact, argue that local well-being is more immediately sensitive to rate of growth than to city size, and that the "proper" pattern of city sizes might better be de-rived from the preferred pattern of
McCallum, James Douglas ; Wingo, Lowdon ; Thompson, Wilbur ; Richardson, H.W. ; Bergsman, Joel ; Greenston, Peter ; Healy, Robert ; Mills, Edwin S. ; Evans, Alan W.
Economic Research Relevant to the Formulation of National Urban Development Strategies, 1973, p.158-158
Thompson it is easy to get around. Retirement communities are, in fact, much over-represented among the nation's fastest growing urban places. How much has the growth of these places already slowed the growth of big cities, and how much more of a redistribution of population could be achieved with a more intensive promotion of retirement communities? Transportation Technology and Natural Ecology But even if we should begin to approach "zero population growth as a nation and zero net migration in
McCallum, James Douglas ; Wingo, Lowdon ; Thompson, Wilbur ; Richardson, H.W. ; Bergsman, Joel ; Greenston, Peter ; Healy, Robert ; Mills, Edwin S. ; Evans, Alan W.
Economic Research Relevant to the Formulation of National Urban Development Strategies, 1973, p.166-166
Thompson in income terms? Surely, we are not trying to maximize per capita income in any given area because that criteria could be perverted into a beggar-thy-neighbor strategy -- skimming-off the cream. We
McCallum, James Douglas ; Wingo, Lowdon ; Thompson, Wilbur ; Richardson, H.W. ; Bergsman, Joel ; Greenston, Peter ; Healy, Robert ; Mills, Edwin S. ; Evans, Alan W.
Economic Research Relevant to the Formulation of National Urban Development Strategies, 1973, p.154-154
McCallum, James Douglas ; Wingo, Lowdon ; Thompson, Wilbur ; Richardson, H.W. ; Bergsman, Joel ; Greenston, Peter ; Healy, Robert ; Mills, Edwin S. ; Evans, Alan W.
Economic Research Relevant to the Formulation of National Urban Development Strategies, 1973, p.337-338
Thompson But this population is not at all comparable in socio-economic status to that which normally has been assembled in a metropolitan area of one-half million population. Eastern Arkansas holds today a residual population: a few who have made it in agriculture (large scale, capital intensive farming) and many more who have not, and a trade and service sector that has grown up relatively sheltered from competition. There are other notable differences between the classic city and an agricultu
McCallum, James Douglas ; Wingo, Lowdon ; Thompson, Wilbur ; Richardson, H.W. ; Bergsman, Joel ; Greenston, Peter ; Healy, Robert ; Mills, Edwin S. ; Evans, Alan W.
Economic Research Relevant to the Formulation of National Urban Development Strategies, 1973, p.181-181
Thompson Such a distribution of national population would also greatly simplify national economic policy in many ways. Expansionary monetary and fiscal policy is complicated when significant infla-tion begins to appear in some places (with leading industrial sectors) before full employment is attained in other places (with lagging sectors). Similarly, repressive monetary and fiscal policy can create serious unemployment in, say, durable goods centers while strong inflationary pressures persist i
McCallum, James Douglas ; Wingo, Lowdon ; Thompson, Wilbur ; Richardson, H.W. ; Bergsman, Joel ; Greenston, Peter ; Healy, Robert ; Mills, Edwin S. ; Evans, Alan W.
Economic Research Relevant to the Formulation of National Urban Development Strategies, 1973, p.175-175
Thompson base may therefore be joined to the loss of the non-residential tax base, and a blighted town with a starved public sector is more likely to be avoided than saved by the coming tide of exurbanites flowing out of the nearby metropolitan area, "Rescuing remote
McCallum, James Douglas ; Wingo, Lowdon ; Thompson, Wilbur ; Richardson, H.W. ; Bergsman, Joel ; Greenston, Peter ; Healy, Robert ; Mills, Edwin S. ; Evans, Alan W.
Economic Research Relevant to the Formulation of National Urban Development Strategies, 1973, p.156-156