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The New Geography

How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape

by Joel Kotkin

Published 2000242 pagesISBN 978-0-3755-0199-9

"The New Geography decodes the massive shifting of resources under way nationwide, examining new forms of social organization that are blooming and old forms that are evolving but dying. Along the way, the book shows how this vast upheaval has been a blessing for some of America's cities, notably those that excel at the preindustrial city's age-old role as a crossroads for creativity, trade, and culture. But not all cities are created equal, and the book explains which are best equipped to thrive, which are doomed to decline, and why. The New Geography also explores a whole set of other kinds of communities - such as high-tech 'nerdistans' and bucolic Valhallas - that are thriving while others are dying." "The product of years of research, The New Geography is an essential road map to the utterly new landscape created by the digital economy."--Jacket.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Nonfiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Balanced tone · Steady pace

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Reading lengthA shorter read242 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2000
Primary categoryNonfictionExplore similar books below
ISBN-13
978-0-3755-0199-9
Language
English
Edition record
OL7425852M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Nonfiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. Whose perspective organizes the story, and whose perspective remains outside it?
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  3. How does the book change the way you understand its larger subject?

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