CITY - ISBN 92-64-02398-4 © OECD 2006 2. TELECOMS INFRASTRUCTURE TO 2030 communication, less for work and presence. Thus, demand for office style property might change to welcoming sites with minimal cost, out of town, and to small prestige sites in urban centres, which could be shared. This would tend to reduce both the amount of office space being built, with its infrastructure, and also the travel patterns and energy consumption involved. Looking to future land usage for housing, with increasing prices, global competition will tend to drive some who can work remotely (knowledge workers) towards previously neglected regions, wherever it is lower cost and in social trends crime is lower, both in open countryside and small towns and villages. The most remote housing could be occupied by those who are full-time teleworkers. Part-time teleworkers, who travel to work once or twice a week only may not mind a longer, irregular commute to cities or regional centres and SO will probably prefer lower cost property beyond the limits of expensive suburbia, but within 60 minutes' travelling time to the work centre. A third category is those who will work from a company (or shared) telecottage, in a remote village, chosen for its amenities and costs. Homes may be judged more on their environmental attraction and practical space use, than on urban proximity and public/private transport position. Thus four profiles of residential property are likely to be in demand, all of which should have some homeworking space and be in low-crime areas: Low-cost villages and small towns, with good amenities such as schools. Remote houses, probably low-cost large properties, for full-time teleworkers. Properties beyond the urban sprawl but still commutable. Low-cost villages with near-free property for telecottages. This geographic dispersion in Telecomia or perhaps super-urban sprawl (as characterised by the United States's current "exurbs") is in some ways a return to linked villages of the past, before the industrial revolution, and is de