Technocities: The Culture and Political Economy of the Digital RevolutionJohn Downey, Jim McGuigan SAGE Publications, 22/06/1999 - 224 من الصفحات Information and communication technologies are said to be transforming urban life dramatically and bringing about rapid economic and cultural globalization. This book explores the many fascinating and urgent issues involved by relating advanced theoretical debates to practical matters of communication with cultural policy. It maps out a range of `optimistic' and `pessimistic' scenarios with special regard to various forms of inequality, particularly class, gender and geopolitical. Topics discussed include urban planning, virtual cities and actual cities, economic and political policy, and critical social analysis of current trends that are of momentous consequence. The book concludes that it is necessary to bring together a number of diffe |
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... economic activities now , he says , is ' the capacity to retrieve , store , process and generate information and knowledge ' . The global information economy is ' based less on the location of natural resources , cheap and abundant ...
... economic activities now , he says , is ' the capacity to retrieve , store , process and generate information and knowledge ' . The global information economy is ' based less on the location of natural resources , cheap and abundant ...
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... economic realities ( Mandelson and Liddle , 1996 : 89 ) . Since his landslide victory in May 1997 Tony Blair is likely to be Prime Minister into the next century , and as such his policy merits attention . In the Commission on Social ...
... economic realities ( Mandelson and Liddle , 1996 : 89 ) . Since his landslide victory in May 1997 Tony Blair is likely to be Prime Minister into the next century , and as such his policy merits attention . In the Commission on Social ...
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... economic and cultural capital on their part . For a genuinely public space to emerge a radical change of policy at EC level is required together with a considerable change in both economic circumstance and ideology of states at national ...
... economic and cultural capital on their part . For a genuinely public space to emerge a radical change of policy at EC level is required together with a considerable change in both economic circumstance and ideology of states at national ...
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Foreclosing on the City? The Bad Idea of Virtual Urbanism | 34 |
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