Employment ; Rural-urban relations ; Suburbanization ; Traffic ; Transport
distancesfrom suburban areas into the central city were replaced by shorter commuting relations within the suburban areas. Taking four German agglomeration areas as a case in point, the author reaches the overall conclusion that the co-location hypothesis cannot
be confirmed. In spite of the decentralization of employment a smaller-scale linkage of functions in suburban areas did not take place. The author explans this amongst other things with the evident mono-functionality of suburban growth policies. - (IfL)