ABSTRACT
Neighborhoods are building blocks of regional economies. Decade after decade, urban and regional scholars have been preoccupied with studying the restructuring and development of regional economies in the context of national and global economic changes. Studying central-city neighborhood economies is vital because an understanding of intraneighborhood relationships between various industrial activities and neighborhood characteristics can shed light on the dynamics of urban neighborhood change and the interconnection among neighborhoods. Well-documented job decentralization has produced significant adverse effects on the economic fortunes of central-city neighborhoods and their residents. The neighborhood economies in aged central cities like Ohio's have evolved over an entire century. The seven Ohio central cities include: Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Youngstown. Each of these cities has a larger population than most metropolitan areas, and it stands to reason that there must be healthy subareas as well as decayed ones in such central cities.
