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Title: Do local roads matter? Linking local roads spending to decentralization in the Detroit Metropolitan Area

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation research is to determine the causal relationship between local roads spending (i.e., state-allocated road spending and locally-raised road spending) and the decentralization of people in the context of the Detroit Metropolitan Area between 1980 and 1990. This research adopts a human ecology methodological framework and develops a conceptual model that broadly integrates local roads spending with proposed explanations of decentralization. The conceptual model is developed within social geographic inquiry and is informed by three perspectives (a) ecological and spatial assimilation, (b) neighborhood preference, and (c) place stratification in understanding the decentralization process. This research integrates each of these three proposed theoretical perspectives into the human ecological framework to conceptualize how local roads spending affected decentralization during that decade.

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Authors: Campos, Annalie, L

Institution: Michigan State University

Department: Geography

Advisor: Adelaja, Adesoji

Degree: Ph.D.

Publisher Location: Michigan

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Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other

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