Suburbs for nations? Some interdisciplinary connections on the suburban economy
Suburbs for nations? Some interdisciplinary connections on the suburban economy
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cities.2009.11.005
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2010-04
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6.7
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N. Phelps
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作者：
N. Phelps
本文回顾了（主要是北美和欧洲）关于郊区经济意义的文献。人们普遍认为郊区在经济上毫无活力。然而，随着国民经济的持续增长，大部分城市化和国民经济活动都发生在郊区。如果郊区在数量上对国民经济的增长很重要，那么郊区对国民经济的质量贡献是什么就不太清楚了。例如，对于郊区经济是否拥有支撑中心城市的那种集聚经济，存在相当大的不确定性。此外，虽然被称为“创意阶层”的部分人群继续支撑着中心城市，但有选择地从城市向外迁移表明，在郊区和其他地区，其他部分可能很明显。到目前为止，城市和地区之间私人和社会成本和收益的不平等已得到充分认识。在这种不公平的增长模式中，“国家”是最大的净受益者之一，这一事实没有得到足够的重视，但它指出了经济学文献与政治经济学文献之间有趣的联系。正是后者表明，在福特主义和后福特主义时代，远郊的经济活力是如何通过民族国家重组得到许可的。
This paper reviews the (primarily North American and European) literature for signs of the economic significance of suburbs. It has been common to view suburbs as economically inert. Yet as national economies have continued to grow, the bulk of urbanisation and national economic activity has been suburban. If suburbs have been important in quantitative terms to the growth of national economies, it is less clear what if any qualitative contribution suburbs have made to national economies. There is, for example, considerable uncertainty over whether the suburban economy possesses the sorts of agglomeration economies that sustain central cities. Moreover, whilst segments of what have been referred to as the ‘creative class’ continue to underpin central cities, selective out-migration from cities suggests that yet other segments may be apparent in suburbia and beyond. The inequity of private and social costs and benefits across city-regions is by now quite well appreciated. The fact that ‘the nation’ is one of the largest net beneficiaries in this inequitable pattern of growth is less appreciated but points to interesting links to be made between the economics literature, on the one hand, and the political economy literature, on the other hand. It is the latter which indicates how the economic vibrancy of outer suburbs has been licensed by nation-state restructuring in both the Fordist and post-Fordist era.