ABSTRACT
This relationship has received surprisingly little attention. Despite the fact that many high technology concentrations develop at the outer perimeter of the metropolitan area, there have been no attempts to estimate the impact of this location pattern on suburban land consumption. But these concentrations create considerable pressure on real estate markets at the urban fringe, resulting in the redesignation of land uses, the incorporation of unincorporated land, annexations, and the like. In combination with the suburban housing choices of their labor force, high technology firm clusters are likely to impact significantly on urban deconcentration.
