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- Title
TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT AND BUILDING CYCLES.
- Authors
Isard, Walter
- Abstract
The article focuses on the relationship between transport development and building activity in Chicago, Illinois. It is a special study in the broad field that deals with the dynamics of transport technology and its effect upon industrial and population growth, shifts and concentrations. Accordingly, the method of analysis and many of the theoretical results obtained in this paper will be applicable to other studies within this broad field. In its development from an agricultural to a predominantly industrial economy the U.S. has experienced a number of building cycles, whose fluctuations and contours have been relatively regular. This is a generally accepted fact, but theoretical treatment of the causes of these cycles in building has been very deficient and unsatisfactory. In what follows emphasis will be laid upon the growth and innovational aspects of transport facilities as the crucial factor; by reacting upon industrial location and consumer behavior transport development sets the basic pattern to which building has adhered in the past.
- Subjects
CHICAGO (Ill.); ILLINOIS; TRANSPORTATION; CONSTRUCTION; COMMERCE; STRUCTURAL design
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1942, Vol 57, Issue 1, p90
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1881814