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Why face-to-face still matters : the persistent power of cities in the post-pandemic era / Jonathan Reades and Martin Crookston.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Reades, Jonathan, author.
Series:
Policy Press scholarship online.
Policy Press scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Urban economics.
Industrial location.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Summary:
Why do businesses still value urban life over the suburbs or countryside? This accessible book makes the case for face-to-face contact, still considered crucial to many 21st-century economies, and provides tools for thinking about the future of places from market towns to world cities.
Contents:
The story so far
Moving stuff around
Making markets
Doing deals
Talking shop
Let's talk: face-to-face interactions now
What, then, for 21st-century places?
And in the end...
Notes:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jan 2022).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529216011
152921601X
9781529216035
1529216036
9781529216028
1529216028
OCLC:
1242578118

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