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Spatial Structure and Urban Growth

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The ability of activities to compete for sites depends upon whether they have the means to benefit from accessibility and complementarity within the urban framework. But economic conditions, population, other land uses both public and private, and the size of the urban area continually change subjecting the urban land market to forces of perpetual adjustment.

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© 1988 Paul N. Balchin, Jeffrey L. Kieve and Gregory H. Bull

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Balchin, P.N., Kieve, J.L., Bull, G.H. (1988). Spatial Structure and Urban Growth. In: Urban Land Economics and Public Policy. Macmillan Building and Surveying Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19444-5_3

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