ABSTRACT
San Francisco has had a singularly vigorous Chamber of Commerce, which in association with other interested parties has helped to persuade some of the communities in its metropolitan area to bear much of the investment costs of the Bay Area rapid transit system. In greater Cleveland and greater Boston, both relatively slow-growing metropolitan areas, the suburban shares were 21 and 25 percent, respectively. Approximately half of the office floor space of the New York, Houston, and Dallas metropolitan areas was outside the central business district in 1972; and in the Twin Cities and Atlanta metropolitan areas, the suburbs provided 56 and 59 percent, respectively, of major free-standing office space. Because of its scattered nature and characteristically low-rise architecture, suburban office space is visually much less impressive than that of the central city. Offices are to be found in many of the older inner-suburban centers of the larger metropolitan areas, for example in Brooklyn, Evanston, and Brookline.
