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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : SAGE, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - Effect of technological innovations on; Telecommunication - Social aspects; City planning - Technological innovations
• Altri autori: DowneyJohn McGuiganJim
• 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.: 9910782556803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II