ABSTRACT
The study of business cycles is a well-established research area in economics. The awareness of cyclical rhythms in urban development, however, is more recent. This awareness has risen in two ways. Research during the 1960s and 1970s focused upon the sensitivity of urban economic structure to economic fluctuations (e.g. Cutler and Hansz 1971). More recently, authors have investigated spatial cyclical trends (e.g. van den Berg et al. 1986; Berry 1988; Mera 1988). Some studies in the latter group have analyzed the concurrent appearance of spatial and economic cycles. This study is concerned with the interrelationships between economic and spatial trends for selected regional centers over the last hundred years. This period is approximately coincident with the last two Kondratieff (1935) long-wave economic cycles.
