New nerd towns
Nerds rule. As e-commerce grows, new "downtowns" are sprouting up for business and housing. Unlike the many traditional 19th-century downtown areas that are being redeveloped around the country, these new "nerd" downtowns are more likely to grow up where none existed before. "They are driven by employers'
Robert Bruegmann, a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago. "The idea to have a center seems to come from our own psychological drives." Supporting that theory is a recent New York Times report that urban centers where lofts are available for offices or housing are more attractive to dot.com employers than traditional areas.
SIDEBARHigh-tech Jobs, housing demand, and proximity to services are creating new centers such as these where downtowns never before existed:
West San Bernadino and Westlake, Calif.
Far northwest and outer Chicago
Central Contra Costa and Oakland-East Bay, Calif.
Alhambra, Calif.
Olando, Fla.
Downers Grove, III.
Bellemore, Long Island, N.Y.
North/Woodlands/Conroe, Houston
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