Declining spatial transaction costs will affect patterns of urban specialization. The underlying hypothesis is that production locations of goods and services which require face-to-face contacts will continue to be concentrated in core cities of large agglomerations even in the Internet age...

Bedeutet das Internet das "Ende der Geographie", den "Tod der Distanz" oder gar den "Niedergang der Städte"? Solche futuristisch anmutenden Hypothesen wurden im Zusammenhang mit der zunehmenden Verbreitung des Internets als neuer Basistechnologie geäußert. Sie erscheinen aber bei weitem...

Declining spatial transaction costs will affect patterns of urban specialization. The underlying hypothesis is that production locations of goods and services which require face-to-face contacts will continue to be concentrated in core cities of large agglomerations even in the Internet age...