Showing papers on "Urban geography published in 1974"

The Office in Metropolis: An Opportunity for Shaping Metropolitan America

Abstract: skyline and the character of most American central cities during the last decade or so represents a crucial and possibly unique phase in the evolution of the country's urban geography. More important than the ever-increasing size and height of the individual buildings is the magnitude of the downtown office development boom. Between 1960 and 1972, for example, gross office floor space in Manhattan alone increased by some 104 million square feet to a total of about 244 million square feet, a 74 percent addition. In central Chicago, the country's second largest office complex, net office expansion over the same period was over 50 percent, to provide the city with a total of 73 million square feet in 1972. Office space in the central business districts of cities as contrasted as Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, and Dallas also increased by 60 to 90 percent, while Houston, San Francisco, and the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul experienced gains of over 100 percent during that same twelve-year period (see Table 1).

The Economics of Land-Use Intensities in Melbourne, Australia

Abstract: NE consequence of rapid inflation of the prices of land and property in cities is factor substitution. At higher land prices, the intensity of use will increase and, for any given use, less land will be purchased (Figs. 1 and 2). One of the more interesting questions in urban geography relates to this trade-off: exactly what are the consequences of increasing intensity, particularly, what changes in urban land use are likely to result? In this paper an unusual set of data, made available to me in my role as consultant to the city of Melbourne as part of an international planning group (INTERPLAN) that prepared the city's "strategy plan" (goals and policies for future development), is used to shed some light on the question. Specifically, land prices, property values, land-use intensities, and net annual returns (rents) of all properties in the city of Melbourne are analyzed and interrelated, and the economies and/or diseconomies of more intense developments are measured.

“ethnic urbanism” and philippine cities∗

Abstract: The common assertion that the major residential divisions in Southeast Asian cities, as a class, are along ethnic lines is not appropriate for Philippine provincial cities. The various Christian language groups amalgamate without serious difficulty, and Muslims and Chinese, though ethnically distinct, are in most cases too few (and Chinese are too intermixed) to determine the basic residential lineaments of the city.