摘要：Two trends have dominated the economic character of American regions in recent years. The first of these is the decentralization of economic activity to the fringes of metropolitan areas and to previously peripheral regions or countries [24;37]. The second is the decline of manufacturing as a source of employment and its replacement by jobs in services and information-handling occupations [30). These two dimensions of economic change constitute the central core of a process which Bluestone and Harrison (5) have recently referred to as "deindustrialization". This process, in which private capital uses its mobility to relocate its production facilities to more profitable sites, has been invoked to explain the economic decline of the traditional heartland of the U.S. and the ascendance of a newly industrialized "sunbelt".
