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来源

URBAN POLICY AND RESEARCH,Vol.36,Issue1,P.35-47

语言

英文

关键字

Self-sufficiency; self-containment; job-housing balance; commuting; employment decentralisation; urban policy; COMMUTING PATTERNS; LOCATION; CHOICE; POLYCENTRICITY; CHALLENGE; AUSTRALIA; CITIES

作者单位

[Martinus, Kirsten] Univ Western Australia, Ctr Reg Dev, Crawley, Australia. [Biermann, Sharon] Univ Western Australia, Planning & Transport Res Ctr, Crawley, Australia. Martinus, K (reprint author), Univ Western Australia, Ctr Reg Dev, Crawley, Australia. E-Mail: kirsten.martinus@uwa.edu.au

摘要

Metropolitan strategic plans often focus on strengthening local employment opportunities to address the congestion and commuting issues threatening city sustainability. The success of such strategies relies on a more equitable distribution of jobs between sub-regions and can be comparatively benchmarked through one of the three related measures of employment self-sufficiency, self-containment or jobs-housing balance. However, in practice, planning policy implementation to meet these targets seldom reduces automobile commuting. This paper investigates self-containment across a range of occupation and industry types to highlight large differences in commuting and employment patterns through a case study of Perth's Northwest sub-region, Western Australia. Its findings suggest the application of current sub-regional policy and targets within Perth may reinforce the wage and skill disadvantage of outer metropolitan sub-regions over the inner core. It recommends a more nuanced understanding of these measures taking into account the complex dynamics of both employment opportunities and commuting patterns across sub-regions of a city.