Martin Dodge
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Local Futures Map: Home Internet Access London
The findings of the report demonstrate that London’s knowledge-based economy is the most competitive and diversified in the UK, but is strongly geographically concentrated within the city, with bias towards the centre and west. The analysis in the report mapped a number of key benchmark indicators at a fine spatial scale. The image show variations in the home Internet access across London, represented as a density surface with ‹hot› areas in red having high levels of Internet use and ‹cool› blue areas lagging behind. The lower home Internet connectivity rates are associated in particular with high levels of deprivation in east London. One of the key conclusions of the research reported was that «[d]eveloping a competitive and sustainable e-London will mean paying attention to the underlying causes of this unequal geography of opportunity – rather than the symptoms» (Local Futures, E-London and the London Plan, London, 2001, p. 14).
Martin Dodge