Steve Graham, Simon Marvin

Telecommunications and the City

Electronic Spaces, Urban Places

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780415119030
• ISBN-10: 0415119030
• Artikelnr.: 22418827

Autorenporträt

Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin are both Lecturers at the Centre for Urban Technology, Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle.

Inhaltsangabe

1 INTRODUCTION Telecommunications and the city: parallel transformations;
Telecommunications and urban transformations; The urban 'impacts' of
telecommunications; The neglect of telecommunications in urban studies; The
need for more sophisticated approaches to city-telecommunications
relations; The transformation of telecommunications: from the 'Plain Old
Telephone Service' (POTS) to telematics; The transformation of cities:
towards planetary urban networks 2 TELECOMMUNICATIONS AS A PARADIGM
CHALLENGE FOR URBAN STUDIES AND POLICY 3 APPROACHING TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND
THE CITY 4 URBAN ECONOMIES 5 THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIFE OF THE CITY 6
URBAN ENVIRONMENTS 7 URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORTATION 8 URBAN
PHYSICAL FORM 9 URBAN PLANNING, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE 10 CONCLUSIONS