1. The dimensionality of the urban functional system.
- Author
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Wanner, Richard A. and Wanner, R A
- Subjects
METROPOLITAN areas ,CITIES & towns ,POPULATION ,SOCIOLOGY ,DEMOGRAPHY ,URBAN policy ,CLASSIFICATION ,COMPARATIVE studies ,ECONOMICS ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL cooperation ,RESEARCH ,SOCIAL change ,SOCIAL role ,EVALUATION research - Abstract
This paper suggests that the formulation and testing of hypotheses relating the functional role of cities in a society to other urban structure and process variables might be facilitated by substituting a continous variable approach to the functional system for the prevailing discrete typologies. Using variables indexing the scope of economic activities in U.S. communities at two points in time, we elaborate a technique for identifying the dimensions underlying an existing typology, and the 56 largest SMSA's are ranked along these dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1977
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