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G. Bell
Language
English
Pages
240

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Location, Offices

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First Sentence

"The office building has come to replace the factory as the symbol of contemporary urban economic development."

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
Page 1
1. The neglect of office studies
Page 2
2. Some reasons for the neglect of office studies
Page 3
3. Defining an office
Page 4
4. Outline of the book
Page 5
II. Genesis of the Office
Page 8
6. Before the industrial revolution
Page 8
7. The effect of the industrial revolution
Page 9
8. Office mechanization
Page 10
9. Advent of office computers
Page 13
10. Office buildings
Page 17
11. Skyscrapers
Page 19
III. The Growth of Office Employment
Page 26
12. Blue-collar/white-collar
Page 26
13. Office employment by occupation
Page 27
14. Clerical workers and office employment growth
Page 31
15. Growth rate variations between industries
Page 35
16. Role of female office workers
Page 39
17. Growth of office work in individual organizations
Page 41
18. Impact of computers on office employment
Page 44
IV. The Supply of Office Floorspace
Page 52
19. Availability of floorspace data
Page 52
20. Trends in supply
Page 54
21. Factors influencing supply
Page 57
a. Finance
b. The rle of developers
c. Vacancy rates
d. Conversion and demolition
e. Scale
22. Planning controls
Page 64
23. Over-supply problems
Page 67
V. The Demand for Office Floorspace
Page 71
VI. Regional Patterns of Office Location
Page 92
VII. Intra-Urban Office Location
Page 115
38. Parallels with location of manufacturing industry
Page 115
39. Intra-urban office location: some empirical evidence
Page 117
40. Haig's contribution to office location studies
Page 121
41. More recent contributions
Page 122
42. Office centrality and type of industry
Page 125
43. Intra-C.B.D. office location dynamics
Page 128
VIII. Communications and Office Location
Page 133
44. Some empirical evidence
Page 134
45. Contact studies
Page 141
46. Types of contact
Page 142
47. Relative roles of types of contact
Page 143
48. Indices of contact
Page 148
49. Multi-variate classification of contact patterns
Page 150
50. Effect of loation change on office communications
Page 152
51. Comparability of office communication studies
Page 154
52. Communications and the future location of office activity
Page 154
IX. Office Location: Forces for Change
Page 160
53. Defining 'decentralization'
Page 160
54. Sources of data
Page 161
55. Pressures at the centre
Page 162
56. Regional background to British decentralization policies
Page 163
57. London's office problems
Page 165
58. Inaccurate assumptions?
Page 168
59. Policy changes
Page 170
60. Economics of decentralization
Page 172
X. The Pattern of Decentralization
Page 177
61. Commercial office decentralization
Page 177
62. Government office decentralization
Page 181
63. Characteristics of decentralized offices
Page 185
64. Office decentralization in the United States
Page 189
XI. The Impact of Changing Office Location Patterns
Page 194
XII. Conclusions
Page 220

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 226-233.
Includes index.

Published in
London
Series
Urban and social geography series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
651/.3/09421
Library of Congress
HF5547 .D254

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 240 p. :
Number of pages
240

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5252784M
Internet Archive
officelocationur0000dani
ISBN 10
0713519010
LCCN
75325625
Goodreads
5041572

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