caa a22 4500 477076327 CHVBK 20180405111439.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01580538 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01580538 Salomon Ilan Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel aut Telecommunications, cities and technological opportunism [Elektronische Daten] [Ilan Salomon] The advent of telecommunications and the emergence of the ‘information age' have given rise to great expectations regarding urban change. The paper examines the assumptions underlying the claims for change and distinguishes between processes which may alter the structure of the city and those which change the functions of cities. In the former, it examines the assumptions underlying the decentralization-concentration hypotheses, suggesting that there is no deterministic effect of telecommunications, and that the structure of cities is largely affected by the persistent need for physical transport. Telecommunications can be used by agents to exercise greater flexibility in location decisions. At the global scale, the emergence of the world cities is facilitated by telecommunications, but only few cities are likely to gain this status. The effects of telecommunications on urban form and function are mostly the result of opportunities seized by individual agents and not by deterministic or naive policy approaches. Springer-Verlag, 1996 The Annals of Regional Science Springer-Verlag 30/1(1996-03-01), 75-90 0570-1864 30:1<75 1996 30 168 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580538 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580538 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Salomon Ilan Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Annals of Regional Science Springer-Verlag 30/1(1996-03-01), 75-90 0570-1864 30:1<75 1996 30 168 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer