ABSTRACT
The city is the office for any networked organization, and the changing shape of office work has major implications on the changing shape of the city. The revolution in information technology, the massive changes in office design, the dissolution of the workplace into a multifaceted, multi-tiered operation integrated with other aspects of our lives will inevitably change the shape of the city. It is already doing so. The “knowledge worker” uses his or her city like a tourist, not simply as a resident. A tourist needs and expects the facilities of the city on demand 18, even 24 hours a day, and that has major implications for infrastructure, for the design of public space, for the content of buildings, for the adaptive life of buildings, and many other considerations.
