Technology fostering cultural lifestyle changes.(From the Ground Up)

One way to predict the future is to travel to other places and make note of trends there that have not made it to the local area. Savvy real estate developers have been doing this for a long time. For example, Columbia, Md., and Seaside, Fla., were visited, observed and studied by developers who wanted to see if planned communities were viable for their areas.

Recently, a group of people interested in commercial real estate trends visited the Far East, a place not likely to evoke thoughts of future trends in real estate. They wanted to see what was going on in building