ABSTRACT
This chapter, attention focuses on the importance of agglomeration economies, how central cities and suburbs have alters to accommodate changes in industrial specialization, and, within the suburbs, the importance of new agglomerations in providing employment in the key business–related, FIRE, and social services industries. The importance of agglomeration economies to suburban development is not as readily recognized as in the case of the central cities. The industrial–era metropolis, characterized by a dominant central–city core and a girdling ring of residential suburbs, turned inside out and split asunder in this period. The evidence that the agglomerations have increased in importance in recent years raises a number of questions concerning the relative magnitude within the metropolitan system and the implications of the growth and development for the continued viability of the central city economy. The suburban centers of the Hartshorn–Muller and the Cervero studies cannot be pinpointed.
