1. SPATIAL REORGANIZATION: A MODEL AND CONCEPT.
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Janelle, Donald G.
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RESEARCH , *URBAN planning , *TRAVEL time (Traffic engineering) , *TRANSPORTATION - Abstract
Travel-time connectivity is a key factor in defining a process of the spatial reorganization of man's functional establishments. A case study relating highway development with the growth in wholesale activity for selected cities in the upper midwest of the United States indicates that, aside from being a good surrogate of transport efficiency, travel-time connectivity is also a good measure of the relative advantage of a given place in attracting to itself the centralization and specialization of human activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1969
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