Providing the most comprehensive, international and interdisciplinary analysis yet of the relationships between cities, urban life and new technologies, this informative 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-commerce, teleworking, community informatics, digital architecture, urban...

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...