The Cybercities Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415279567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 444 str.

Stephen Graham

Opis

For too long information and communications technologies have been lazily portrayed as means to simply escape into a parallel world -- to withdraw from the body, or the city, in some utopian, or dystopian, stampede on-line. Such perspectives deny the fact that the so-called 'information society' is also an increasingly urban society. They ignore the ways in which new technologies now mediate every dimension of the fabric of everyday urban life. And they tend to obscure a key question: how do the multifaceted realities of city regions interrelate in practice with new technologies in different ways in different places ? The Cybercities Reader explores this question. With its related web site, is the most comprehensive, international and interdisciplinary analysis yet of the relationships between cities, urban life and new technologies. The book incorporates detailed discussions of cybercity history, theory, economic processes, mobilities, physical forms, social and cultural worlds, digital divides, public domains, strategies, politics and futures. The book includes coverage of post modern technoculture, virtual reality and the body, global city economies, urban surveillance, E-Comme

Recenzje

"In gathering together classic and contemporary papers, this volume reveals urban landscapes as simultaneously reflective and constitutive of the digital world, illustrates the powerful ways in which cyberspace is shot through with social categories of class, power, gender, and ethnicity, and renders obsolete artificial dualisms such as on-line and off-line." - Barney Warf, Florida State University

Spis treści

Section 1: Understanding Cybercities Part 1. Cybercity Archaeologies Part 2. Theorising Cybercities Part 3. Cybercities : Hybrid forms and recombinant spaces Section 2: Cybercity Dimensions Part 4. Cybercity Mobilities Part 5. Cybercity Economies Part 6. Social and Cultural Worlds of Cybercities Part 7. Cybercity Public Domains and Digital Divides Section 3: Shaping Cybercities? Part 8. Cybercity Strategy and Politics Part 9. Cybercity Futures

O autorze

Stephen Graham is Professor of Urban Technology at the Global Urban Research Unit in Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. He is co-author of Telecommunications and the City and Splintering Urbanism, both published by Routledge, and co-editor of Managing Cities.