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Neighbourhoods and the formation of towns : the role of information externalities
Catherine Baumont Rachel Guillain Jean-marie Huriotsubject
sociologyagglomération[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociologysocial servicesbusiness studies[SHS.SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociologywelfare studiessocial studieseconomie urbaine[ SHS.SOCIO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociologyadministrationmanagementinformationdescription
The objective of this paper is to explain the role of information and of the progress made in information treatment and its transmission in the way that urban space evolves, and particularly its center-periphery structure. Information plays a more and more important role in production and innovation processes. Despite the very rapid progress in long distance information exchange possibilities, men and economic activities still demand proximity, in the form of direct, face-to-face contact. Today, the need for information exchange is one of the main sources of production agglomeration. What kind of information does it concern ? What sort of economic activities require proximity and how is that related to information exchange ? Does progress in information technologies generate new forms of agglomeration of activities or new urban space patterns ?
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-01-01 |