| Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places Contributor(s): Graham, Steve (Author), Marvin, Simon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415119030 ISBN-13: 9780415119030 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1995 Annotation: Advances in telecommunications are currently involved in the economic, social, cultural, environmental and physical transformation of advanced industrial cities. Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management. Through its analysis of the links between urban places and electronic spaces, the book provides a pathbreaking contribution to burgeoning debates about technological change and the future of cities. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 95021880 |
| Lexile Measure: 1470 |
| Physical Information: 1.32" H x 6.3" W x 9.16" (1.53 lbs) 452 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and a wide body of recent research, the book addresses key academic and policy debates about technological change and the future of cities with a fresh perspective. Through this approach, the complex and crucial transformations underway in cities in which telecommunications have central importance are mapped out and illustrated. Key areas where telecommunications impinge on the economic, social, physical, enviromental and institutional development of cities are illustrated by using boxed extracts and wide range of case study examples from Europe, Japan and North America. Rejecting the extremes of optimism and pessimism in current hype about cities and telecommunications, Telecommunications and the City offers a sophisticated new perspective through which city-telecommunications relations can be understood. |