Originally published in 1977. This book offers answers to two interrelated questions about the modern city relating to the processes underlying the past and present growth of 'post-industrial' metropolitan complexes and their economically advanced city-systems, and efforts to reduce interregional inequalities of employment opportunity.

1. Basic Problems and Basic Concepts 2. Past Growth: Information Circulation and Channels of Interdependence 3. Present Processes of Change: Multilocational Organizations and the Interurban Transmission of Growth 4. Future Development Options: Office Activities, Services and the Quality of Life