COORDINATING EMPLOYMENT, TRANSPORT AND HOUSING IN CITIES - AN INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

This paper outlines a reconceptualisation of the relationship between employment, housing and transport in cities that draws upon insights d rawn from structuration theory and institutional sociology, It identif ies the need for a new focus, one that lies between the structural and the individual-the institution-as well as the need for the integratio n of time-space into analyses, Institutions are embedded social action . The unique formations of institutional matrices (households, labour markets, housing markets and transport systems) are identified as site s for further research and policy development, The paper calls for fut ure research to identify who gains and who loses within the current, a nd future, configurations of institutions in cities, Changes in indivi dual behaviour and the policies to enable or to constrain such behavio ur should be evaluated in this light.