Modelling the post-industrial city

Abstract

A new kind of city is emerging: globalized (connected to other cities in global networks); tertiarized and even quaternarized (dependent almost entirely for its economic existence on advanced services); 'informationalized' (using information as a raw material); and polycentric (dispersing residences and decentralizing employment into multiple centres or 'edge cities'). The question is how we can adapt the urban and transportation models, which originated in the very different world of the 1960s, to these conditions, and what kind of model would then result. © 1997 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.