Office Sprawl In The Edgeless City

Suburbs now rival cities as top sites for offices. Downtowns are losing share to new "edgeless cities."

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November 9, 2000, 11:00 AM PST

Suburbs now contain the majority of office space in many of the country's top metropolitan office markets, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy. Before 1980, central cities dominated the office market, but over the last two decades, office space has become much more dispersed. The old, central-city downtown has lost its primacy in most major office markets.

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