Infrastructure of the 'New Age': Telecommunications Planning
| Autor: | Barbara Becker, Susan L. Bradbury |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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Information economy
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Planning Literature. 10:142-153 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6593 0885-4122 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/088541229501000202 |
| Popis: | Infrastructure building, maintenance, and financing are familiar issues to planners, but only recently has the relationship between economic development and the quality and quantity of infrastructure received much attention. Largely absentfrom this emerging economic development/infrastructure literature, however, is discussion of the importance of telecommunications infrastructure. As the U.S. economy moves away from traditional manufacturing and toward a reliance on knowledge-intense, high-tech servicefirms, access to this infrastructure will be an increasingly criticalfactor in the location of both commercial and residential development. To attract and retain the communications-dependent firms and industries that are driving the information economy, state and local planners must actively provide access to the telecommunications services that these businesses and their skilled laborforces will demand. Clearly, communities must begin to planfor and provide telecommunications infrastructure to promote economic development if they are to avoid being left behind as the United States competes in the internationally based information economy. |
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