Has Suburbanization Diminished the Importance of Access to Center City?
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Richard Voith* In a Business Review article nine years ago, we examined the role thataccess toCenterCityPhiladelphia (Philadelphia’s central business district, or CBD) played in people’s choices aboutwhere to live and how to commute.1 That analysis, which was based on 1980 census data, concluded that access toCenterCity both by car and by public transportation helped shape people’s choices in three important ways. First, householdswithpeopleworking inCenterCity tended to choose residential communities with good public transportation or highway access toCenter City.2 Second, houses in communities with
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