Why Face-to-Face Still Matters

The Persistent Power of Cities in the Post-Pandemic Era

Why Face-to-Face Still Matters
Jonathan Reades, Martin Crookston
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Paperback
h234 x 156mm - 176pg
18 Mar 2021 UK
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9781529216004
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What do cities do that suburbs or countryside can' t? Tracking more than a century' s worth of thinking across infrastructures, markets, and changing technologies, this book drills down into the realities of modern city business life to explore why central places have come to dominate economic life in the 21st Century. COVID-19 has meant it' s a difficult time to be putting the case for the importance of Face-to-Face, but the book outlines how it can help us - often in unobserved ways - to negotiate uncertainty and to ' seal the deal' . Using interviews with staff and business leaders from high-profile industries to bring it to life, the book argues for the value of the ' right' location during and after the pandemic, and explains why ICT has transformed both businesses, and our cities and towns, and yet also changed little about the underlying challenges of business life. This accessible book gives readers including developers, investors, and policy-makers essential tools for thinking about the future of places ranging from market towns to great World Cities.
Dr Jonathan Reades is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. He is a human geographer who uses quantitative social science methods to explore contemporary challenges in urban and regional development. He has a background in both planning and geography, and programming and ' big data' analytics, and has published widely in these areas. Martin Crookston is a strategic planning consultant, with experience ranging from London and Abu Dhabi to Prague and the Paris region. An urban economist and planner, he was a member of Lord Rogers' s Urban Task Force, where he chaired the Working Group on Design & Transport. Much of his recent work has focussed on housing and regeneration, and he is the author of Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow? - a new future for the cottage estates (2014).
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ISBN-13: 9781529216004
Published: 18 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 176

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