"Decentralization is a common phenomenon in metropolitan areas throughout the world. Several studies empirically show strong evidences of urban changes from mono-centricity to ti-entricity in theprocess of urban growth. For example, Craig& Ng (2001) s...
"Decentralization is a common phenomenon in metropolitan areas throughout the world. Several studies empirically show strong evidences of urban changes from mono-centricity to ti-entricity in theprocess of urban growth. For example, Craig& Ng (2001) showed that Houston can haveseveral employment subcenters using anemployment density function. Plaut & Plaut(1998) identified the 3 housing price centers inHaifa, Israel by estimating the housing pricegradient. A notable result from the previousresearches in the other countries except Koreais the fact that the subcenters still support the"