Job Sprawl Stalls: The Great Recession and Metropolitan Employment Location

This study analyzed private enterprise employment in the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States between 2007-2010, and across all of the 2000s. It looked at those private sector employers located within 35 miles of the central business districts. Findings indicate the following: 1. The economic recession slowed down the job decentralization that had occurred in the early to mid-2000s. 2. Manufacturing and construction industries - those industries most impacted by job losses, and also those industries which had been the most decentralized - helped to stall employment decentralization. 3. Most of the 100 largest metropolitan areas (except for nine of them) saw a loss of jobs located withing three miles of the central business district during the 2000s. One of the exceptions - Washington, D.C. - saw an increase in both the share and number of jobs located within three miles of its central business district.

• Record URL:
  http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2013/04/18%20job%20sprawl%20kneebone/srvy_jobsprawl.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Brookings Institution

  1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Kneebone, Elizabeth
• Publication Date: 2013-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 24p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Central business districts; Decentralization; Employment; Industrial location; Metropolitan areas; Private enterprise; Recession; Urban sprawl
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01482918
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 3 2013 9:21AM