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Toward an Understanding of the Metropolis: I. Some Speculations Regarding the Economic Basis of Urban Concentration

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Introductory — Changed scope of city planning and the resulting need for economic assistance, 180. — The problem of an efficient "pattern of population" considered abstractly, 183. — Fundamental importance of transportation advantages in assembling assortments of consumption goods, 186. — Advantages in distributing such assortments, 187. — Consumption advantages of non-urban locations, 188. — Effects upon location of perishability and variation in weight and bulk of goods, 190. — Family unit and location, 193. — Influence of trade-union "exactions," 195. — General factors of retardation and distortion, 196. — Variations in the factors influencing the pattern, 197. — Correlation between growth and variations in relative transportation advantages in history of New York City, 204.

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  • Robert Murray Haig, 1926. "Toward an Understanding of the Metropolis: I. Some Speculations Regarding the Economic Basis of Urban Concentration," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 40(2), pages 179-208.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:40:y:1926:i:2:p:179-208.
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