The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape - Softcover

Kotkin, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375758321 ISBN 13: 9780375758324

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 2001

Synopsis

In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines the new role of cities in America and takes us into the new American neighborhood. The New Geography is a brilliant and indispensable guidebook to a fundamentally new landscape.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Joel Kotkin is a senior fellow with the Davenport Institute for Public Policy at Pepperdine University, a research fellow in urban studies at the Reason Public Policy Institute, and a senior fellow with the Milken Institute. He writes a monthly column, "Grass Roots Business," in the Sunday New York Times Money & Business section, and is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Opinion section as well as a columnist for the Los Angeles Business Journal. An active participant in the new economy, he is director of content for Prime Ventures, a high-tech venture-capital firm specializing in new-media and technology ventures. He has written four previous books, including Tribes. He lives in North Hollywood, California.

Synopsis:

One of the nation's great forecasters of business and public policy trends takes a candid look at the digital revolution and discusses how it will effect the way we live, work, and play. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375758321
• ISBN 13: 9780375758324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240