%0 Journal Article %1 Townsend:2001a %A Townsend, Anthony M. %D 2001 %J Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design %K city evolution internet network world-system %N 1 %P 39--58 %T The Internet and the Rise of the New Network Cities, 1969-1999 %V 28 %X The recent rapid growth of the Internet has avoided scrutiny from urban planners as little information is available from which to assess its impacts on cities and regions. As a result, explanations of the relationship between telecommunications and urban growth are overly simplistic, forecasting either the centralization of decisionmaking in so-called 'global' cities or wholesale urban dissolution. Based on two measurements of Internet geography -- domain name registrations and backbone networks -- this study finds that access to advanced communications technologies have broadly diffused across a wide group of medium-sized and large-sized metropolitan areas. Finally, the implications of these findings suggest a need to rethink global cities and a practical need to address the growing divide between network cities and the rest of the urban world

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