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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 |
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