This paper assesses US metropolitan regions in terms of the adoption of e-commerce by businesses using a combination of data from Interactive Week, Alexa Research and Hoover's Online. This analysis shows that e-commerce is providing the impetus and means to reorganise the economic and geographic...

Despite the rhetoric in the popular and business press trumpeting the removal of 'the limitations of geography', a number of researchers have demonstrated that rather than simply dispersing, the Internet in fact exhibits an uneven spatial pattern throughout the United States and world. Using a...