Where the jobs are going: Job sprawl in U.S. metropolitan regions, 2001-2006

Journal of the American Planning Association

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-69

  Weitz, Jerry ^a,b   Crawford, Tom ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Planning and Zoning Commission   (United States)

Author keywords

accessibility; employment dispersion; jobs housing balance; metropolitan regions; sprawl; urban containment

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; EMPLOYMENT; GIS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND USE; METROPOLITAN AREA; MOBILITY; URBAN HISTORY; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN POPULATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857311951     PISSN: 01944363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2011.645276     Document Type: Article

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