This paper examines neighborhood responses to the business cycle of the decade 1999–2009. Utilizing a quality-of-life (QoL) framework to profile neighborhoods in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, we investigate with a Markov-chain methodology how the process of change was impacted by...

The authors investigate how the intermodal freight-transportation network affects the ability of regions to position themselves more effectively in the national space economy. The case of domestic containerized freight traffic is examined because it is closely associated with contemporary forms...