Telecommunications and the City - Electronic Spaces, Urban Places

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Graham, Graham Steve, Simon Marvin
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.1995
• EAN: 9780415119023
• ISBN: 978-0-415-11902-3
• No. of pages: 456
• Weight: 1000 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Economics, Public Relations, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Humanities, Human Geography