The Rise of Telecities: Decentralizing the Global Society.
The creation of telecities are a solution to reverse the trend toward megacities. Megacities put massive numbers of people at risk for terrorist attacks and natural disasters—something that leaders and planners are only slowly realizing. These cities will be superseded by telecities due to the dri...
| Publicado en: | Futurist Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 28 - 34 |
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World Future Society
January/February 2004
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