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Improved accessibility and its correlate lower generalized cost of contact, travel andtransport have been sought by dynamic human societies for their economic and social benefits throughout recorded history. The paper will reflect about this process at a number of different spatial and temporal scales based on a conceptual model. Looking back at European history, it will trace the interaction between Christaller’s logic of local market areas and the idea of (low contact cost) network cities. Focusing on Switzerland since 1950 it will show how network investment changed the relative distribution of population and employment and how this interacted with changes in the preferences of the travelers. Using a recent snapshot of how a substantial sample of Swiss maintain their social networks over often very large areas, it will try to answer the question of what will happen in the future, if the current trend of ever lower costs of contact persists. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-005705247Publication status
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Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungVolume
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ETH, IVTSubject
Network growth; Social network geography; Policy; TRANSPORT POLICY; SOZIALE NETZWERKE (SOZIALWESEN); ERREICHBARKEIT (VERKEHR UND TRANSPORT); SOCIAL NETWORKS (SOCIAL WELFARE); Accessibility; ACCESSIBILITY (TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC); VERKEHRSPOLITIK + TRANSPORTPOLITIKOrganisational unit
02610 - Inst. f. Verkehrspl. u. Transportsyst. / Inst. Transport Planning and Systems03521 - Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus) / Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus)
02226 - NSL - Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft / NSL - Network City and Landscape
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG
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