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UNINA9910782556803321 |
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Titolo |
Technocities : the culture and political economy of the digital revolution / / edited by John Downey and Jim McGuigan |
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London : , : SAGE, , 1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-4462-7999-5 |
1-84787-687-0 |
1-281-79471-6 |
9786611794712 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cities and towns - Effect of technological innovations on |
Telecommunication - Social aspects |
City planning - Technological innovations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Technocities explores the many fascinating and urgent issues involved with information and communication technologies. Topics include: |
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