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Titolo: | Technocities / / edited by John Downey and Jim McGuigan |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Thousand Oaks, CA, : SAGE, 1999 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) |
Disciplina: | 307.76 |
Soggetto topico: | Cities and towns - Effect of technological innovations on |
Telecommunication - Social aspects | |
Altri autori: | McGuiganJim DowneyJohn W |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Technocities |
ISBN: | 1-4462-7999-5 |
1-84787-687-0 | |
1-281-79471-6 | |
9786611794712 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910820452603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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