When Corporations Leave Town: The Cost and Benefits of Metropolitan Job Sprawl

by Wim Wiewel and Joseph Persky

New suburban communities have sprung up all over America, while industrial plants and other commercial districts in the inner city have been left to decay. Nowhere is this more evident that the midwestern United States, where newly formed communities have funneled jobs and income from the inner city. Generally known as sprawl, the problem is particularly acute in those metropolitan areas where deconcentration is taking place--decline in the central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081432908X
• ISBN13: 9780814329085
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"