Flying Carpets and Urban Development Trajectories

摘要: Generalised costs of transport and communication have decreased in many domains during the past centuries. Some cities strongly benefitted from these developments. The more recent development is that passenger has become leading driving force, as opposed to freight earlier logistical revolutions. Information Communication Technology (ICT) a substitute for some forms physical but certainly not all; continue depend on high quality networks. An underestimated component networks vertical rise buildings. This played key role urban developments 20th century it may be expected its next century. Probably, ‘flying carpet’ notion most clearly visible movements high-rise