How does electronic commerce affect business location decisions?
– What are the implications of new portable information technologies, such as mobile telephones, for the division between public and private realms? Issues include the potential for erosion of privacy. – How does information technology interact with urban ecological systems? – How can virtual communities (organized through electronic and other networks) be characterized and understood, and related to our traditional concepts of urban communities? How would a society centered on virtual communities care for urban physical and social capital and ecological systems? The less tangible losses due to a diminished role for face-to-face interaction also need examination. • How is urban infrastructure changing in the information age? The multiple interactions of evolving infrastructure, especially that of communications and transportation, with urban economic, social, and environmental conditions are poorly understood but vital to the urban future. They need to be studied, and guidance provided
