This book presents new information on the rapidly changing configuration of urban telecommunications. The contributors describe the interplay among current stakeholders in this area: public utility commissions, city planners and service providers, state governments, telecommunications users (especially large businesses), and consumer groups. The book provides case studies of major U.S. cities, one Canadian city, a metropolitan area on the U.S.-Mexican border, as well as smaller cities that have positioned themselves for international economic trade whereby telecommunications will play a major role.Table 5.1 Nonagricultural Employment Shares and Annual Change in Employment for Houston and the United States, 1980 ... such as retail credit card processing, on-line reservoir data analysis, and sophisticated oil and gas well Houston 79.
Title | : | The New Urban Infrastructure |
Author | : | Jurgen Schmandt |
Publisher | : | Greenwood Publishing Group - 1990-01-01 |
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