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- Title
ATLANTA'S ROLE AS AN INFORMATION CENTER: INTERMETROPOLITAN SPATIAL LINKS.
- Authors
Wheeler, James O.; Mitchelson, Ronald L.
- Abstract
Atlanta has emerged in the 1980s as a major second-order command and control center within the US economy and demonstrates considerable dominance within the Southeast. Federal Express Corporation data permit examination of Atlanta's national and regional command and control functions. The concepts of information genesis, hierarchy of control, and spatial independence of information receipt clarify Atlanta's place within the specialized information network. Atlanta occupies an advantageous position within the intermetropolitan information network from which much of the Southeast's economic activity is organized.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COMMAND & control systems; INFORMATION networks; UNITED States economy; DATA transmission systems; ECONOMIC indicators
- Publication
Professional Geographer, 1989, Vol 41, Issue 2, p162
- ISSN
0033-0124
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.0033-0124.1989.00162.x