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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... space constraints , through instant flows of electrons and photons across space . Because these two ' roles ' are so complementary , future development in Western urban societies seems likely to be about ever more intimate and ...
... space constraints , through instant flows of electrons and photons across space . Because these two ' roles ' are so complementary , future development in Western urban societies seems likely to be about ever more intimate and ...
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... space constraints within the theoretically unlimited domains of electronic spaces ' ( 1996 : 173 ) . Other advocates of techno - urbanism are more bold still , more intoxicated by the ' freedom ' of the virtual life . For them , as ...
... space constraints within the theoretically unlimited domains of electronic spaces ' ( 1996 : 173 ) . Other advocates of techno - urbanism are more bold still , more intoxicated by the ' freedom ' of the virtual life . For them , as ...
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... space and the public sphere needs to have two fronts . However , in comparison to the defence of physical space the defence of electronic space has received little attention . Political resistance , Castells suggests , is more likely to ...
... space and the public sphere needs to have two fronts . However , in comparison to the defence of physical space the defence of electronic space has received little attention . Political resistance , Castells suggests , is more likely to ...
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