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Cf. Kingsley Davis , The World's Metropolitan Areas. Berkeley and Los Angeles: California University Press, 1959, pp. 10-II, 17-20: T.W. Freeman , The Conurbations of England and Wales . Manchester, University Press, 1966 , Ch. I passim.

Evidence to be published in the author's section of Megalopolis England . London: Political and Economic Planning, to be published 1971.

J.R. Meyer , J.F. Kain , M. Wohl , The Urban Transportation Problem, Cam-bridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1965, p. 366.

Manchester Rapid Transit Study, Vol. 3, The First Priority. Manchester: The Corporation, 1968 , p. 105.

R.J. Smeed , 'The Road Space required for Traffic in Towns', Town Planning Review, 33, London , 1962-3, pp. 279-92.

D.L. Munby , 'The Economics of City Traffic', in T. E. H. Williams (ed.), Urban Survival and Traffic, London: Spon, 1962, Table 6, p. 228.

A. Stone , 'The Future of Road Transport in our Cities', Journal of the Institute of Transport, 31 1965-6, p. 272.

Manchester Rapid Transit Study, op. cit., Table 5.3.2. and Table 6.1.

See for instance the evidence in London Travel Survey, Vol. 2, London: Greater London Council, 1966, para. 12-17 and Diagram 12-2 (reproduced here as Fig. 2 (b)). Since publication of this report, car ownership rates in Central London have risen even less rapidly than was forecast.

John Barr , 'Cardiff's Hook Road', New Society, 8 May 1969.

M.E. Beesley and J.F. Kain , 'Urban Form, Car Ownership and Public Policy: An Appraisal of Traffic in Towns', Urban Studies , I, 1964, pp. 184-5.

Meyer et al., op. cit, Chapter 3 passim. This is criticised in Peter Hall , 'The Urban Culture and the Suburban Culture', in Richard Eels and Clarence Walton (ed.) Man in the City of the Future, New York: Macmillan 1969, 125.

B.J.L. Berry et al., Commercial Structure and Commercial Blight, University of Chicago Research Paper 85, Chicago: The University, 1963, p. 29.

J.E. Vance , 'Emerging Patterns of Commercial Structure in American Cities', in Proceedings of the IGU Symposium on Urban Geography , Lund, ed. Knut Norborg, Land Studies in Geography, Series B, 24, 1962, pp. 517.

Evidence to be published in Megalopolis England, op. cit.

'Report of the Socio-Geographic Enquiry', in Local Government in South East England, Research Report NO.I, Royal Commission on Local Government in England , London: H.M.S.O., 1968, para. 3.43.

R.D.P. Smith , 'The changing Urban Hierarchy', Regional Studies, 2, 1968, pp. I-19.

Robert B. Riley , 'Urban Myths and the new cities of the Southwest ', Landscape, 17/I, Autumn 1967, pp. 21-2. A city like Phoenix (Ariz.), which is much newer than Los Angeles, has about half its average density.

D.A. Quannby , 'Travel Mode for Journey to Work', Journal of Transport Economies and Policy, I, 1967, pp. 297-300.

Department of Housing and Urban Development , Tomorrow's Transportation, Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1968, pp. 58-60.

Ibid, 60-68.

As argued, for instance, by E.J. Mishan in The Costs of Economic Growth, London: Staples, 1967, pp. 97-8.

Ministry of Transport , Road Track Costs, London: H.M.S.O. , 1968, para. 17.

Cf. Peter Hall , The World Cities, London , etc.: World University Library, 1966, 241, and the paper by Peter Cowan on 'Communications' in this issue.

Folke Kristensson , People, Firms and Regions: A Structural Economic Approach, Stockholm: School of Economics , mimeo. 1967, passim. To be published; already published as Människor Företag och Regioner, Stockholm : Almqvist and Wiksell, 1967.

At least one well-known firm corresponds to the description. But the illustration is purely hypothetical.

Albert S. Chapman , 'Trans-Europe Express: Overall Travel Time in Competition for Passengers', Economic Geography, 44, 1968, pp. 288-95.

There is evidence that the growth in central London employment may have ceased—at least temporarily. Cf., the commuting figures to central London for 1962-67 in London Transport , London Transport in I968, London: H.M.S.O., 1969, p. 39.

'Railways of Tomorrow', supplement to The Times, 9 July 1969.