Intraurban Locational Process And The Spatial Behavior Of Manufacturing Establishments

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1977
Acar, Ahmet C.
In this paper, the objective is not to provide a standard review of the literature on the theory and empirical studies of intraurban manufacturing location; such reviews are published periodically in several sources. Instead, this paper reports an approach that has proved to be useful in studying the location of manufacturing industries in a metropolitan area. As the title suggests, the approach provides an explanation of a given location pattern, as well as the changes in it, in terms of the spatial behavior of manufacturing establishments. Rather than presenting a suggested model construct, this paper emphasizes on the characteristics of the locational process, the understanding of which may serve as a foundation for modeling efforts. It should, thus, be also noted that this paper is not intended to include a discussion of the problems of large-scale modeling. These problems are rather numerous and a discussion of them is apt to be involved and lengthy. Discussions of the large-scale modeling can be found in Lee,Jr., Harris and others. The applicability of this approach in dealing with the problem of manufacturing location in the Turkish urban areas is discussed in the concluding section of this paper. A basic premise of this paper is that "employment change", rather than "employment" is the appropriate unit of analysis in studying the locational decisions of manufacturing industry, since the use of the latter entails some serious sources of-bias in explaining the existing and predicting the future location patterns. The increasing dynamism in the location pattern of manufacturing activities in most industrialized and industrializing countries during the last several decades justifies this approach.

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A. C. Acar, “Intraurban Locational Process And The Spatial Behavior Of Manufacturing Establishments,” ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 119–139, 1977, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/1977/cilt03/sayi_1/119-139.pdf.