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Their wordsToday's big shift is the movement of companies and people to business-friendly regions in the suburbs and exurbs.
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Technology is enabling worker dispersion and may reduce the necessity of dense urban centers.
Their wordsHowever, technology such as remote work, video conferencing, and instantaneous communication is enabling worker dispersion, bearing out Frank Lloyd Wright's prediction that in the future "the city should be everywhere and nowhere."
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Migration patterns out of dense, blue states are likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
Their wordsMeanwhile it seems likely that migration patterns out of the dense, blue states will continue for the foreseeable future.
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