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- Title
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON URBAN TRANSPORTATION IN AMERICA.
- Authors
Hoover, Edgar M.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the urban transportation in the U.S. The mass ownership of private automobiles and the revolutionary changes in the physical layout of urban areas are some of the most striking changed in the U.S. life that occurred in past few years. Here the author argues that the two revolutionary changes are intimately related, to a much greater extent even than is generally recognized. The prevalence of automobile ownership today in the U.S. is dramatically shown by the fact that there are about 65 million private automobiles, or one for every 3 people. The inter-city movement of persons is estimated to be go per cent by private automobile, about 5 per cent by air, and about 2 per cent each by rail and bus. The other revolutionary change is reflected in the fact that the suburban rings of metropolitan areas have been showing by far the fastest rates of growth, while a considerable proportion of the cities forming the central cores of such areas are actually losing population. The basic fact about this development of urban sprawl is that space is being used much more lavishly and extensively at the margin of development.
- Subjects
UNITED States; URBAN transportation; AUTOMOBILE ownership; CITIES &; towns; SOCIAL change; POPULATION; SUBURBS
- Publication
Journal of Industrial Economics, 1965, Vol 13, Issue 3, p177
- ISSN
0022-1821
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2097481