Reexamines the author's 1969 paper "The Geography of the U.S. in the Year 2000." Discusses the new interplay of countervailing pressures that bring about change in the urban environment. Discusses the effects of information-age technologies. States that change in the nature of change should be probed continually. (DB)

This resource paper on economic geography is part of a series designed to supplement undergraduate geography courses. It interprets regional economic development in terms of geographic spatial patterns of production, income, and physical or economic distance. Chapter two outlines some selected characteristics of spatial disparities of economic…