ABSTRACT
The control of business office construction has been under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Environment since 1964. Since the early 1960s British efforts to influence the locations of office activities have for the most part fallen into three categories: first, the dispersal of existing private-sector offices from Central London; secondly, the control of new private-sector office construction in London and elsewhere; and, thirdly, the decentralization of government civil service offices from London. The large-scale placement of administrative functions, related business services and office activities in general in selected problem-region cities should normally demand some modification in long-distance interurban transportation routes and schedules. Substantially higher transportation costs could reduce both individual mobility and market areas, or the exploitation of scale economies, thereby encouraging some deconcentration of work-places and services. The functioning of major headquarters office units in Boise has been made viable by the commercial airline services available to that geographically isolated metropolitan area.
