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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782556803321

Titolo

Technocities : the culture and political economy of the digital revolution / / edited by John Downey and Jim McGuigan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : SAGE, , 1999

ISBN

1-4462-7999-5

1-84787-687-0

1-281-79471-6

9786611794712

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

DowneyJohn

McGuiganJim

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Effect of technological innovations on

Telecommunication - Social aspects

City planning - Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1 - DEBATES; 1 Towards Urban Cyberspace Planning: Grounding the Global through Urban Telematics Policy and Planning; 2 Foreclosing on the City? The Bad Idea of Virtual Urbanism; 3 Information and Communications Technologies: Luddism Revisited; PART 2 - TEXTURES; 4 Fishing with False Teeth: Women, Gender and the Internet; 5 The Ideal City and the Virtual Hive: Modernism and Emergent Order in Computer Culture; PART 3 - TERRITORIES; 6 XS 4 All? 'Information Society' Policy and Practice in the European Union

7 Beyond Infrastructure: Europe, the USA, and Canada on the Information Highway; 8 Technocities and Development: Images of Inferno and Utopia; PART 4 - PERSPECTIVES; 9 Designs on the City: Urban Experience in the Age of Electronic Reproduction; 10 New Technologies: Technocities and the Prospects for Democratization; Afterword: Back to the Future?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Technocities explores the many fascinating and urgent issues involved with information and communication technologies. Topics include:



urban cyberspace planning, women, gender and the Internet, and images of technological inferno and utopia.