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9780761955559

Technocities : The Culture and Political Economy of the Digital Revolution

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761955559

  • ISBN10:

    0761955550

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-06-22
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

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Summary

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 differently informing approaches, cultural, economic, political and technological, to make sense of a field of dynamic and contradictory forces.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(8)
Jim McGuigan
Part 1 Debates
Towards Urban Cyberspace Planning: Grounding the Global through Urban Telematics Policy and Planning
9(25)
Stephen Graham
Foreclosing on the City? The Bad Idea of Virtual Urbanism
34(26)
Kevin Robins
Information and Communications Technologies: Luddism Revisited
60(30)
Frank Webster
Part 2 Textures
Fishing with False Teeth: Women, Gender and the Internet
90(18)
Simone Bergman
Liesbet van Zoonen
The Ideal City and the Virtual Hive: Modernism and Emergent Order in Computer Culture
108(13)
Julian Stallabrass
Part 3 Territoties
XS 4 All? `Information Society' Policy and Practice in the European Union
121(18)
John Downey
Beyond Infrastructure: Europe, the USA and Canada on the Information Highway
139(14)
Leen d'Haenens
Technocities and Development: Images of Inferno and Utopia
153(15)
Simon Bell
Part 4 Perspectives
Designs on the City: Urban Experience in the Age of Electronic Reproduction
168(18)
John Pickering
New Technologies: Technocities and the Prospects for Democratization
186(19)
Douglas Kellner
Afterword: Back to the Future? 205(5)
John Downey
Index 210

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