You're right about architecture and location of homes.
But:
* there's a discernable trend in my social circles to locate well away from cities (and the first world) - but I can't find good statistics to back this up as more than just anecdote
* companies such as IBM claimed that due to the expansion of teleworking, they're able to save USD700m per year (but I keep finding secondary sources for this claim, and anyway they probably sell telecommuting solutions, so decreasing the trustworthiness of the numbers)
* growth in creatives filling my local cafe as their office makes it almost impossible to get a table to drink an espresso and have a slice of cake - again hopelessly anecdotal
It's actually maddening that there don't appear to be any good statistics (or even academic papers with theoretical models) on this.
Anyone with any national or urban statistics that correlate things like economic growth, percentage days worked from home, average growth in peak commute time traffic-kilometers in urban and suburban traffic systems versus actual? Extra points for urban transit ridership growth or shrinkage during peak commute time.
But:
* there's a discernable trend in my social circles to locate well away from cities (and the first world) - but I can't find good statistics to back this up as more than just anecdote
* companies such as IBM claimed that due to the expansion of teleworking, they're able to save USD700m per year (but I keep finding secondary sources for this claim, and anyway they probably sell telecommuting solutions, so decreasing the trustworthiness of the numbers)
* growth in creatives filling my local cafe as their office makes it almost impossible to get a table to drink an espresso and have a slice of cake - again hopelessly anecdotal
It's actually maddening that there don't appear to be any good statistics (or even academic papers with theoretical models) on this.
Anyone with any national or urban statistics that correlate things like economic growth, percentage days worked from home, average growth in peak commute time traffic-kilometers in urban and suburban traffic systems versus actual? Extra points for urban transit ridership growth or shrinkage during peak commute time.