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This paper describes metropolitan development in the San Francisco Bay Area in the style of E. M. Hoover and R. G. Vernon's classic 1950's study of the New York metropolitan area,Anatomy of a Metropolis. The analysis concentrates on trends in microelectronics manufacturing as the region's export base, new developments in the business service sector, the competition between San Francisco's downtown office sector and peripheral locations for office employment, and the changing character of the Bay Area households. Factors identified as important for forecasting development in the Bay Area to the end of the century include the competitive strategy of Silicon Valley manufacturers, the evolution of land-use controls in San Francisco and the suburban communities, and the probability of redevelopment in Oakland.
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This is a short version of a longer paper with the same title [4] in which sources of much of the data summarized here are provided in more detail.
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Hoerter, D., Wiseman, M. Metropolitan development in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ann Reg Sci 22, 11–33 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01283650
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