Your citation to BELTWAY BURDEN
http://commerce.uli.org/misc/BeltwayBurden.pdf
is a real service.
Since moving to a Beta Village in the Countryside in 2002 EMR’s focus has been on understanding the economic, social and physical reality outside the Clear Edge around the Cores of New Urban Regions.
EMR was not aware of this work but it is a worthy successor to the 6th item listed in ANATOMY OF A BAD COMMUTE. In fact those little red “employment centers” are the “activity centers” that could grow to be the Cores of Balanced Communities.
BELTWAY BURDEN is consistent with all the well founded work EMR has seen over the past three decades.
There are a few problems:
The great graphics make the file very large to download and print.
The work was done just before the roof fell in vis a vis gasoline prices, so some will discount the work because gas in now “cheap.”
Of course the data is aggregated by municipal jurisdiction and there is some use of Core Confusing Words but one cannot have everything.
Someone needs to step up and look at these issues in light of the new reality. In the meantime all those interested in evolving functional human settlement patterns should have this in their libraries.
EMR