Moving People and Goods in Tomorrow's Cities

Abstract

ers' residences. Efficient transportation, giving workers wider choice of employment opportunities, contributes to the mobility of the labor supply. It encourages maintenance of the family unit by making possible employment of more than one worker per family, in different sections of the city. Its effects are both centripetal and centrifugal: the same highway or electric railway that brings people to the center of the city also takes them to the outskirts.