The Cybercities Reader Book

	List of illustrations
	List of contributors
	Acknowledgement
	Introduction: From dreams of transcendence to the remediation of urban life	1
Sect. I	Cybercity archaeologies	33
	Introduction	35
	Inhuman Geographies: Landscapes of Speed, Light and Power	39
	The City and the Telegraph: Urban Telecommunications in the Pre-Telephone Era	44
	The Structure of Cities	47
	The Urban Place and the Non-Place Urban Realm	50
	The Cable Fable Revisited: Discourse, Policy and the Making of Cable Television	53
	Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape	57
Sect. II	Theorising cybercities	65
	Introduction	67
	Postscript on Societies of Control	73
	The Third Inteval	78
	Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age	82
	The Capsule and the Network: Notes Toward a General Theory	94
	Cities Without Modernity, Cities With Magic	98
	Cyberspace Meets the Compulsion of Proximity	101
	The Co-Existence of Cyborgs, Humachines and Environments in Postmodernity: Getting Over the End of Nature	106
Sect. III	Cybercities: hybrid forms and recombinant spaces	111
	Introduction	113
	Eclectic Atlases	117
	The City of Bits Hypothesis	123
	Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissible City	129
	Generation Txt: The Telephone Hits the Street	133
	Excavating the Material Geographies of Cybercities	138
	Learning from September 11th: ICT Infrastructure Collapses in a "Global" Cybercity	143
Sect. IV	Cybercity mobilities	151
	Introduction	153
	People	159
	Do Telecommunications Make Transportation Obsolete?	162
	The City and the Cybercar	167
	Cybercommuting on an Information Superhighway: The Case of Melbourne's CityLink	173
	The New Orgman: Logistics as an Onganising Principle of Contemporary Cities	179
	Deterritorialisation and the Airport	185
Sect. V	Cybercity economies	189
	Introduction	191
	Agglomeration in the Digital Era?	195
	Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis	199
	Cyberspace and Local Places: The Urban Dominance of Dot.Com Geography in the Late 1990s	205
	Teleworking and the City: Myths of Workplace Transcendence and Travel Reduction	212
	The Caribbean Data Processors	218
	Geographies of E-Commerce: The Case of Amazon.com	221
	The Web, the Grocer and the City	226
	E-Commerce and Urban Space in Japan: Accessing the Net via Convenience Stores	231
	Space Jam: Media Conglomerates Build the Entertainment City	235
Sect. VI	Social and cultural worlds of cybercities	239
	Introduction	241
	Habit@Online: Web Portals as Purchasing Ideology	249
	At Home With the Media	252
	Netville: Community On and Offline in a Wired Suburb	256
	Gender and Landscapes of Computing in an Internet Cafe	263
	Speaking Mobile: Intensified Everyday Life, Condensed City	267
	The City in Cyberspace	273
	Identity, Embodiment, and Place: Virtual Reality as Postmodern Technology	279
Sect. VII	Cybercity public domains and digital divides	283
	Introduction	285
	Cyburbanism as a Way of Life	291
	San Francisco: Capital of the Twenty-First Century	296
	Surveillance in the City	299
	Defining the Technology Gap	306
	Bangalore: Internal Disparities of a City Caught in the Information Age	309
	Public Internet Cabins and the Digital Divide in Developing World Megacities: A Case Study of Lima	314
	Access Denied	320
	The Software-Sorted City: Rethinking the 'Digital Divide'	324
Sect. VII	Cybercity strategy and politics	335
	Introduction	337
	Planning Cyber-Cities? Integrating Telecommunications into Urban Planning	341
	Cyberjaya and Putrajaya: Malaysia's "Intelligent" Cities	348
	Grounding Global Flows: Constructing an E-Commerce Hub in Singapore	354
	Cybernetic Wal-Mart: Will Internet Tax Breaks Kill Main Street USA?	360
	Recombinations for Community Meaning	363
	Retrofitting Sprawl: A Cyber Strategy for Livable Communities	366
	The Rise and Fall of the Digital City Metaphor and Community in 1990s Amsterdam	371
	Public Spheres and Network Interfaces	378
Sect. IX	Cybercity futures	385
	Introduction	387
	The Future of the Future in Planning Theory: Appropriating Cyberpunk Visions of the City	395
	Terminal 2098	401
	Sustainable Tourist Space: From Reality to Virtual Reality?	407
	A Letter from the Future	411
	Life After Cyberspace	415
	How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism	418
	Illustration credits	427
	Copyright information	430
	Index	435