Agglomeration and Dispersion of High-order Service Employment in the Montreal Metropolitan Region, 1981-96
Agglomeration and Dispersion of High-order Service Employment in the Montreal Metropolitan Region, 1981-96
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10.1080/00420980220112739
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发表时间：
2002-03
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影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
W. Coffey;Richard Shearmur
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作者：
W. Coffey;Richard Shearmur
最近关于郊区就业中心的许多城市文献都忽视了高阶服务的作用，也许是“边缘城市”的主要组成部分，在不断发展的多核大都市结构的创造中。本文专门探讨了高阶服务在这一过程中的作用。我们使用人口普查区层面的工作地点就业数据来研究1981- 1996年期间蒙特利尔地区四种金融、保险和房地产（FIRE）服务和八种商业服务的大都市内就业地理变化。我们发现中央商务区（CBD）下降的证据是相对的，但不是绝对的。由此产生的分散显然采取了多中心的形式，而不是普遍的分散。尽管最近电信技术取得了进步，但集聚经济继续对都市内部区位产生重要影响。
Much of the recent urban literature on suburban employment centres has neglected the role of high-order services, perhaps the principal component of 'edge cities', in the creation of the evolving multinucleated metropolitan structure. This paper specifically explores the role of high-order services in this process. We use employment by place-of-work data at the census-tract level to examine the changing intrametropolitan geography of employment in four finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) services and eight business services in the Montreal area over the period 1981-96. We find evidence of central business district (CBD) decline in relative, but not absolute, terms. The resulting decentralisation has clearly assumed the form of polycentricity rather than of generalised dispersion. In spite of recent advances in telecommunications technologies, agglomeration economies continue to exert an important impact upon intrametropolitan location.