A Smart Growth Bibliography:

Industrial Location

Blackley, Paul R. The Demand for Industrial Sites in a Metropolitan Area: Theory, Empirical Evidence, and Policy Implications, Journal of Urban Economics, 17, 247-261 (1985).
Summary: Model of urban manufacturing location. Explains the demand for industrial sites in a metropolitan area based on firm characteristics. Paper - Regression analysis (15 pages).

Bookout, Lloyd W. Inner-City Retail Opportunities, Urban Land, May 1993.
Summary: Discussion of retail and other forms of commercial development to revitalize inner-cities. Descriptive article (4 pages).

Calzonetti, F.J. and Robert T. Walker. Factors Affecting Industrial Location Decisions: A Survey Approach. In Herzog, Henry W. Jr., and Alan M. Schlottmann, eds. Industry Location and Public Policy. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1991.
Summary: The chapter provides an overview of factors that influence industrial location decisions in the U.S., considers the approaches used in identifying these factors and their role in the location decision, and presents the results of a recent national study rating factors that influence industrial location decisions. The authors also suggest how this knowledge can be helpful to policy makers involved in stimulating regional growth and development. Paper (20 pages).

Chapman, Keith and David Walker. Industrial Location: Principles and Policies, Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1987.
Summary: The book describes general location factors and location decisions with reference to Townroe's critical elements for locational choice. It considers effects of other firms such as scale economies, agglomeration, and linkages, and discusses the spatial evolution of industries. Book - Descriptive/empirical (305 pages).

Erickson, Rodney A. and Michael Wasylenko. Firm Relocation and Site Selection in Suburban Municipalities, Journal of Urban Economics, 8, 69-85 (1980).
Summary: Model of intrametropolitan firm location for seven industry sectors. Paper - Model (17 pages).

Ernst & Young and Nacore International. Reshaping America - The Migration of Corporate Jobs and Facilities, Survey by Ernst & Young and Nacore International, 1992.
Summary: A survey of approximately 700 corporate real estate executives nationwide to determine preferred location sites and factors. Survey (82 pages).

Ghosh, Avijit and Gerard Rushton. Spatial Analysis and Location-Allocation Models, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company (New York), 1987.
Summary: The book presents a multitude of fairly technical location-allocation models. Book - Models (360 pages).

Hamer, Andrew Marshall. Industrial Exodus from Central City: Public Policy and the Comparative Costs of Location, Lexington Books, DC Heath & Company, 1973.
Summary: Framework for analyzing the relevant costs of locating manufacturing firms at different sites in an urban area: Operational model of intrametropolitan location. Book - Descriptive/model (107 pages).

Harris, Curtis C., Jr. The Urban Economies, 1985: A Multiregional Multi-Industry Forecasting Model, Lexington Books, DC Heath & Company, 1985.
Summary: Multiregional, multi-industry forecasting model used to forecast the location of each industry. Applications of the model include the economic effects of firms locating in a depressed area due to business loans. Book - Model (230 pages).

Herzog, Henry W. Jr., and Alan M. Schlottmann, eds. Industry Location and Public Policy. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1991.
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Inman, Robert P. Can Philadelphia Escape Its Fiscal Crisis With Another Tax Increase?, Business Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Sept.-Oct. 1992, 5-20.
Summary: The article examines Philadelphia's ability to raise tax rates as one means to close its current deficits, and estimates from historical data the past effects of changes in city tax rates on the tax base for property, business, and wage taxes. Paper - Regression analysis (16 pages).

Kasarda, John D. Industrial Restructuring and the Changing Location of Jobs. From Farley, Reynolds, State of the Union, 1995.
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Luce, Thomas F., Jr. Local Taxes, Public Services, and The Intrametropolitan Location of Firms and Households, Public Finance Quarterly, Vol. 22 No. 2, April 1994, 139-167.
Summary: Examination of the effects of local public sector tax and spending decisions on the intrametropolitan location of jobs and workers. Literature review, model, empirical results (29 pages).

Schmenner, Roger W. Energy and the Location of Industry, in Energy Costs, Urban Development, and Housing, The Brookings Institution, 1984.
Summary: The paper the interregional location decision process of industry in America and the effect that energy has on this decision. The study finds that the principal controlling concerns in the locational decision include: labor costs; unionization of labor; the quality of life in an area; proximity to markets; proximity to supplies or resources; proximity to other company facilities. Of these six factors, the last three can be directly affected by the cost or availability of energy. By and large, however, energy seems to be only a minor influence in the plant-location decision. Paper.

Scott, Allen J. Locational Patterns and Dynamics of Industrial Activity in The Modern Metropolis: A Review Essay, Univ. of Toronto, Dept. of Geography, Discussion Paper No. 27, May 1980.
Summary: The paper discusses basic locational factors; the literature on economies of agglomeration and scale in cities; manufacturing activity in nineteenth century cities; the phenomenon of industrial decentralization in twentieth century cities; and policy issues. The author also constructs a composite theory of intrametropolitan industrial location. Paper - Descriptive/literature review (78 pages).

Struyk, Raymond J. and Franklin J. James. The Urban Institute, Intrametropolitan Industrial Location: The Pattern and Process of Change, Lexington Books, DC Heath and Company, 1975.
Summary: The article examines the changing pattern of the location of manufacturing employment in four metropolitan areas (Cleveland, Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix) over the period 1965-1968. It quantifies the changes in the intrametropolitan distribution of manufacturing employment with Dun and Bradstreet establishment-level manufacturing data. Book - Descriptive/empirical (190 pages).

Thurston, Lawrence and Anthony M.J. Yezer. Causality in the Suburbanization of Population and Employment, Journal of Urban Economics, 35, 105-118 (1994).
Summary: In examining the causality in the suburbanization of population and employment, the study differs from previous studies by disaggregating employment by industry and by aggregating change over annual rather than decennial time intervals. The study concludes that suburbanization of the residential population is enhanced by rising income, by suburbanization in the transportation, communication, public utilities, and service sectors, and by the failure of manufacturing to decentralize. Suburbanization of the population is only a positive factor in promoting decentralization of the service and retail sectors. Paper - Regression analysis (14 pages).

Wassmer, Robert W. Can Local Incentives Alter a Metropolitan City's Economic Development?, Urban Studies, Vol. 31 No. 8, 1994, 1251-1278
Summary: Regression technique to measure the separate effect that incentives have on local economic development. Application of the technique to the Detroit metropolitan area. Paper - Statistical Method (27 pages).


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