ABSTRACT
Strategies of planned deconcentration will always bring with them a need for improved longer-distance commuter facilities. Any such account of the urban development process needs simultaneously to incorporate a number of elements. The aim should be to use them as part of a deconcentration strategy, through development of express bus services over medium range connecting the central city with satellite developments. Some kind of a metropolitan strategy will therefore be necessary. This strategy will need to deal with four central problems: employment, shelter, land, and mobility. The objective should be to build up, at fairly modest cost, a system of express bus transportation connecting the different nodes of the polycentric metropolis, in turn connecting with local bus and metro systems and paratransit services. It is common in developing the second and third of these analytical measures to employ a standardized urban definition such as the well known Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area of the United States Census.
