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Subcenters in the los angeles region

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In this article, the authors investigate employment subcenters in the Los Angeles region using 1980 Census journey-to-work data and find a surprising dominance of downtown Los Angeles and three large sub-centers with which it forms a nearly contiguous corridor.
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This article is published in Regional Science and Urban Economics.The article was published on 1991-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 779 citations till now.

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