Year: 1970
Type: article
Abstract: The lmplemen fafion of Con froversial Facility-Complex Programs*Traditional location theory has not explicitly treated the external social and economic effects of location decisions and the resulting repercussions on the locating organization.Such problems are particularly acute in the location of "noxious" facilities, such as sewage plants, incinerators, and urban highways.The location of such facilities may have negative impacts on the population in the immediate vicinity, leading to repercussions in the form of opposition by the group affected.More specifically, such opposition (or threat of opposition) may increase the total costs of implementing the given facility.A recent case in point was the impact of Columbia University's decision to construct a gym in Morningside Park.Although the decision was based on traditional comparative cost analysis the failure to consider potential opposition led to much higher costs than were anticipated.The objective of this paper is to examine the implications of such distributional effects in locational decisions.'A model is proposed to treat the possibility of locational opposition and to resolve such problems through the use of "facility packages."Moreover, this model is intended to provide not only a normative framework for implementing noxious facilities, but also to provide a descriptive tool for analyzing the location of existing noxious facilities. The General ProblemThe general class of problem considered in this paper concerns the location of a facility which is needed within a region, but is not neces-*
Source: Geographical Analysis
Authors: Murray Austin, Tony E. Smith, Julian Wolpert
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2093060102