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In understanding the present and future impacts of information technology on urban and environmental systems the key theoretical issue would seem to be predicting the effects that changes in information technology are having and will have on the spatial structure of the economy, viz. the location of economic activities.
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Beckmann, M.J. (1988). Information Technology and Location. 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_13
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