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Information Technology, the Urban System and Urban Policy Consequences

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Information Technology: Social and Spatial Perspectives

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems ((LNE,volume 315))

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As with many other mature economies in recent years, the economy of the Federal Republic of Germany has — among other factors like the population decline — experienced serious structural changes connected with the rapid development and spread of new technologies leading to the creation of new economic activities, reshaping the character of the old ones and influencing the structure of the labour force. In this chapter, various aspects of the relationships between new technologies on the one hand, and the regional structure and the development of the urban system in West Germany on the other are analysed. Among the influences of the cluster of new technologies (Lakshmanan and Chatterjee 1986, p.15) which cause these cumulative effects, information technologies play an important role. A continuing structural change in the sectoral composition of the economy, leading to a growing dominance of the service sector and to changes within this sector itself (see Table 1), indicates the extent of these influences.

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Funck, R., Koblo, R., Kowalski, J. (1988). Information Technology, the Urban System and Urban Policy Consequences. In: Orishimo, I., Hewings, G.J.D., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Information Technology: Social and Spatial Perspectives. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48638-8_11

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