Steve Graham, Simon Marvin

Telecommunications and the City (eBook, PDF)

Electronic Spaces, Urban Places

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management. Includes case studies from Europe, Japan and North America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134813933
• Artikelnr.: 42981109

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