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Delimiting the Central Business District

Raymond E. Murphy and J.E. Vance. Jr., in the 1954 article "Delimiting the CBD," examine the Central Business District as "the heart of the American city" (189). Murphy is the editor of Economic Geography and a member of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. Vance is on the staff of the Department of Geography at the University of Arkansas.

In this district there are concentrated the city's biggest buildings, highest land values, and, generally, the greatest pedestrian and automobile traffic. The surrounding land and the activities thereon revolve around the Central Business District. The authors in this article want to present for what they say is the first time a comprehensive "standardized method of delimitation" in order to compare Central Business Districts and come to "a real knowledge of the content and functioning of this critical area" (189). The authors see this delimitation as primarily a geographical matter.

The authors find that the District is "far from homogeneous" and go on to explore variations in these Districts. They consider such elements as the peak land value intersection, the commercial core, the edge of the District, the District as a region, delimitation methods used by planning agencies (which the authors say are inadequate because they are not standardized). The authors' find that the literature on the District also is inadequate.

The authors go on to explore the significance and role of population, employment, pedestrian and traffic flow, land values and land use, types of establishments, central business uses, mapping procedures utilized, blocks vs. streets, office calculations, building heights, business intensity. Cities considered, mapped and analyzed include Worcester, Grand Rapids, Salt Lake City, Tacoma, Sacramento, Phoenix, Tulsa, Mobile, and Roanoke.

These cities are analyzed primarily to determine the limits of their Central Business Districts, basing those limits on la...

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