America's Changing Metropolitan Regions

Borchert, John R.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1972.tb00868.x

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“…Borchert (1972) emphasises the importance of a city's physical and spatial structure . He insists that policy-makers must examine the urban structure, which has developed over time, and they must understand the restrictions that structure places on future public and private endeavours .…”

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Dimensions of Urban Structure: An Example of Construct Validation

Ross

1993

Urban Studies

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Traditionally, city classification studies have been considered descriptive. Empirical results have typically not been applied to explain or predict other urban characteristics. This pattern was reversed in the 1980s by the application of the results of two well-known classification studies as independent variables in a regression analysis. However, in performing statistical inference, it was implicitly assumed that the classifications provide measures of unobservable theoretical constructs. In this paper, it is argued that knowledge of a classification's validity is required prior to performing such inference. An example of a construct validation is provided by proposing that the physical and spatial characteristics of urban areas may in part be described by four independent dimensions and an attempt is made to operationalise and validate appropriate measures.

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Section: Construct Validationmentioning

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Dimensions of Urban Structure: An Example of Construct Validation

Ross

1993

Urban Studies

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“…The post-industrial group, on the other hand, contains the smaller and younger SMSAs of the South and West. Other approximations of this classification are to be found in the work of Borchert [3] and Norton [17].…”

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Manufacturing Headquarters in a Post-Industrial Urban Context

Rees¹

1978

Economic Geography

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Clark University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic Geography. This paper examines the pattern of manufacturing headquarters in a postindustrial urban area, the Dallas-Fort Worth SMSA. Recent change in the national system of corporate headquarters is examined in relation to the external control issue. A survey of manufacturing headquarters assesses the relative importance of indigenous versus external sources of headquarters over time, and intra-metropolitan location patterns are analyzed by size of firm and industry type. The impact of corporate headquarters on their local environment is also assessed. * The author wishes to express his appreciation to Deborah Jones and Revis Smith for their assistance with the survey of firms, and to Martin Katzman for his thoughtful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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“…( 9 ) Correspondent banking networks have some spatial patterns, but they are not simple distancedecay or gravity relationships (Borchert, 1972;Lawrence and Lougee, 1970). Larger banks have a larger number of correspondents over a larger area, but the importance of individual banks and cities as financial centers causes variation from traditional spatial patterns.…”

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Firms and Innovation Diffusion: Examples from Banking

Malecki

1977

Environ Plan A

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The diffusion of innovations used by firms themselves and those marketed to consumers are considered within a single framework based on the firm. This framework is represented by a general model which balances innovative and aggressive behavior, common to small firms, against the ability to bear the cost and risk of innovation adoption more common to large firms. A similar model for city-size diffusion patterns, based on the fact that large cities are risk-minimizing locations, contrasts with traditional hierarchical models which assume that large cities are usually the sites of first adoption. Examples of two innovations in the American banking industry were analyzed to test the models. The results suggest that traditional strict size-ordered models for firms and urban systems are not always appropriate, especially for innovations by firms.

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America's Changing Metropolitan Regions

Cited by 64 publications

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Dimensions of Urban Structure: An Example of Construct Validation

Dimensions of Urban Structure: An Example of Construct Validation

Manufacturing Headquarters in a Post-Industrial Urban Context

Firms and Innovation Diffusion: Examples from Banking

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