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The Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Y Ioannides
Henry Overman
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Kurt Schmidheiny
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The geographic concentration of economic activity occurs because transport costs for goods, peopleand ideas give individuals and organisations incentives to locate close to each other. Historically, allof these costs have been falling. Such changes could lead us to predict the death of distance. Thispaper is concerned with one aspect of this prediction: the impact that less costly communication andtransmission of information might have on cities and the urban structure. We develop a model whichsuggests that improvements in ICT will increase the dispersion of economic activity across citiesmaking city sizes more uniform. We test this prediction using cross country data and find empiricalsupport for this conclusion.
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