Changing office location patterns and their importance in the perpheral expansion of the Dublin region 1960 - 2008

Introduction During the past four decades, commercial activity in cities in the developed world has tended to decentralise from traditional central business districts (CBD) to suburban and peri-urban locations. This trend has tended to accelerate during recent decades, often associated with the development of purpose-built suburban office parks. Such trends, frequently being accompanied by the dispersal of population to the hinterland of metropolitan regions, have major implications for cities’ development and transportation infrastructure. Peripheral expansion of urban areas, such as that which has occurred in Dublin, can be linked to the evolving spatial patterns of local commercial and residential development and has resulted in the rapid residential development of towns and villages at increasingly greater distances from the city (MacLaran, 2003; Williams, 2007). The continued decentralisation of employment and population to suburban locations along transport lines and the impacts of emerging subcentres on the urban spatial structure are a major feature of the analysis of the development of major metropolitan areas.

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