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The outcome of employment land policy in provincial English city-regions has been employment deconcentration, but the spatial impacts of this process of relative deconcentration have been complex. The capacity of the land-use planning system to manage the consequences of deconcentrated growth patterns is limited. The quality-of-life impacts of the changing geography of employment have been explored, using the labour market as the mechanism mediating impacts on metropolitan residents. The impacts vary spatially, with the urban fringe benefiting most and the central cities experiencing spatial polarization between those in employment and those who are not
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Smith, I. (2007). Economic deconcentration processes in mid-sized English cities: Deconcentrated outcomes and spatially differentiated impacts. In: Razin, E., Dijst, M., VÁZquez, C. (eds) Employment Deconcentration in European Metropolitan Areas. The GeoJournal Library, vol 91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5762-5_4
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