The Internet Changes Land Use Planning

How will the development of the Internet and telecommunications change the nature of land use?

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March 30, 2001, 6:00 AM PST

Historically, new infrastructure developments have resulted in major land use changes. "For several decades, scholars and journalists have suggested that the growth of the information-based economy would reduce the importance of particular places because the technologies allowed people to live and work wherever they wanted." It turns out that they were wrong.

Thanks to Gwenn Hilburn

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