Title & Author:

The cybercities reader / edited by Stephen Graham.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

xix, 444 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

The Routledge urban reader series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: From dreams of transcendence to the remediation of urban life -- Sect. I. Cybercity archaeologies -- Inhuman Geographies: Landscapes of Speed, Light and Power / Nigel Thrift -- The City and the Telegraph: Urban Telecommunications in the Pre-Telephone Era / Joel Tarr -- The Structure of Cities / Ithiel de Sola Pool -- The Urban Place and the Non-Place Urban Realm / Melvyn Webber -- The Cable Fable Revisited: Discourse, Policy and the Making of Cable Television / Thomas Streeter -- Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape / Thomas J. Campanella -- Sect. II. Theorising cybercities -- Postscript on Societies of Control / Gilles Deleuze -- The Third Inteval / Paul Virilio.

Summary:

How do the multifaceted realities of city regions interrelate in practice with new technologies in different ways in different places? This reader explores this question, providing an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the relationships between cities, urban life and new technologies.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0415279550 (Hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415279550 (Hardback ; alk. paper)
0415279569 (Paperback ; alk. paper)
9780415279567 (Paperback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Information technology Social aspects.
Telecommunication Social aspects.
Cities and towns.
Information society.
Cities
Technologie de l'information Aspect social.
Télécommunications Aspect social.
Villes.
Société de l'information.
cities.
71.43 technology and society.
Informationsgesellschaft
Informationstechnik
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtleben
Informatietechnologie.
Informatiemaatschappij.
Steden.
Cybercité
Technologies de l'information.
Internet.
Vie urbaine.
Sociologie urbaine.
Culture technologique.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Graham, Stephen, 1965-
Routledge urban reader series.

Cyber cities reader

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241816
Call No.: T14.5 .C93 2004
Status: Available