Telecommunications and the City

Electronic Spaces, Urban Places
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-415-11902-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

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.

Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and a wide body of recent research, the book addresses key academic and policy debates about technological change and the future of cities with a fresh perspective. Through this approach, the complex and crucial transformations underway in cities in which telecommunications have central importance are mapped out and illustrated. Key areas where telecommunications impinge on the economic, social, physical, enviromental and institutional development of cities are illustrated by using boxed extracts and wide range of case study examples from Europe, Japan and North America.

Rejecting the extremes of optimism and pessimism in current hype about cities and telecommunications, Telecommunications and the City offers a sophisticated new perspective through which city-telecommunications relations can be understood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graham, Steve

Marvin, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Telekommunikationswirtschaft, Post

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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