With thegradualimprovementofhighwaysandurbanRailTransit, in manymajor cities, it has appeared the phenomenonof residential communitiesand retail commercespreadingto thesuburbs.
For example, the Department of Labor set aside funds for green jobs and job training for high growth sectors of the economy specifically targeted to communities affected by the automotive downturn, and the Department ofCommerce provided funds specifically for automotive communities to develop plans for economic recovery.
That has already begun, in the sense that apps developer communities are very low friction forms ofcommerce, a topic Nick Vitalari and I addressed in The Elastic Enterprise.