城市的未来

有观点认为，“距离的消失”将导致城市消亡，但它忽视了面对面交往的重要性和集聚持续下去的重要性。为考虑这些影响，我们需要一种新的服务产业区位论，集中关注信息经济的4个主要部分所产生的影响，其中包括金融和商务服务，“权力与影响”，创造性产业和文化产业，以及旅游。这将要求主要城市具有新的多中心形态，并且作为全球化和信息服务经济发展的结果，导致传统中心地体系发生了变化。

The Future of Cities

It is argued that the 'death of distance' will lead to the death of cities, but this ignores the significance of face-to-face contact and the continuing significance of agglomeration. We need a new theory of location of service industries to account for these effects, concentrating on the four key sectors of the informational economy: finance and business services, 'power and influence', creative and cultural industries, and tourism. This will need to account for the new polycentric form of major cities, and also for the changes in traditional central place systems that result from globalisation and the development of the informational service economy.