Thompson A forty per cent increase in the average commuting speed (radius) --a not unreasonable expectation for the year 2000--would double the land area of the local economy. If, moreover, progress in telecommunications reduces the need to interact per-sonally with others in central places to one-half of the present level, and if the work week has been cut to :bree days by then, most of us would need to "commute to a large center only once

DOI link for Thompson A forty per cent increase in the average commuting speed (radius) --a not unreasonable expectation for the year 2000--would double the land area of the local economy. If, moreover, progress in telecommunications reduces the need to interact per-sonally with others in central places to one-half of the present level, and if the work week has been cut to :bree days by then, most of us would need to "commute to a large center only once

Thompson A forty per cent increase in the average commuting speed (radius) --a not unreasonable expectation for the year 2000--would double the land area of the local economy. If, moreover, progress in telecommunications reduces the need to interact per-sonally with others in central places to one-half of the present level, and if the work week has been cut to :bree days by then, most of us would need to "commute to a large center only once