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- Title
A Case Study in Industrial Location.
- Authors
Davis, Howard W.
- Abstract
The article presents a case study done in an industrial location in San Antonio, Texas so as to demonstrate the application of locational analysis for determining potential economic activities within a particular area. Though San Antonio is the most underdeveloped city in Texas but undoubtedly it is one of the demographically largest and fastest growing cities in the nation that makes it a suitable metropolitan area for the study and demonstration. Unlike fast demographic growth rate as stated in census of 1960, "urban place", the city's median family and individual mean income were the lowest. The distribution of total civilian non-agricultural wage and salary employment reveals the nature of San Antonio's economic structure. Government and trade are the largest employers, engaging 25 and 30 percent respectively of the employed labor force. Since San Antonio harbors one of the largest concentrations of military activity in the United States, the government sector influences nearly every aspect of the economy.
- Subjects
TEXAS; SAN Antonio (Tex.); UNITED States; ECONOMIC development; INDUSTRIAL location; INDUSTRIES; WAGES; BUSINESS; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Land Economics, 1969, Vol 45, Issue 4, p444
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3145443