Main entry:

Castells, Manuel, 1942-

Title & Author:

The informational city : information technology, economic restructuring, and the urban-regional process / Manuel Castells.

Publication:

Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1991, ©1989.

Description:

viii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 1989.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-388) and index.
Introduction ---- 1. The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism --- 2. The New Industrial Space. The Locational Pattern of Information Technology Manufacturing and its effects of Spacial Dynamics --- 3. The Space Flows. The Use of New Technologies in the Information Economy and the Dialectics between Centralization and Decentralization of Services --- 4. Information Technology, The Restructuring of Capital-Labour Relationships, and the Rise of the Dual City --- 5. High Technology and the Transition from the Urban Welfare State to the Suburban Warfare State --- 6. The Internationalization of the Economy, New Technologies, and the Variable Geometry of Spatial Structure ---- Conclusion.

Summary:

"The cities and the regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the capitalist system and a technological revolution. This is the thesis of this book, now in paperback. Castells not only brings together an impressive array of evidence to support it but puts forward a new body of theory to explain it. He analyzes the interaction between information technology, economic restructuring and socio-spatial change through the empirical observation of contemporary national, urban and regional processes in the capitalist world, with emphasis on the United States. The author summarizes a very wide range of evidence of urban and regional development, and isolates the causes and consequences of the processes and trends that may be observed."--Publisher description.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0631179372
9780631179375
0631159886
9780631159889

Subject:

Information technology Economic aspects.
Information technology Social aspects.
Technology Social aspects.
Space in economics.
High technology industries Location.
Technologie de l'information.
Technologie Aspect social.
Espace (Économie politique)
Industries de pointe Localisation.
Technologie de l'information Aspect économique.
Technologie de l'information Aspect social.
information technology.
Informationstechnik
Kapitalismus
Stadtentwicklung
telecommunications.
technological change.
structural change.
location of industry.
urban area.
regional development.
capitalism.
electronics industry.
computer industry.
innovation.
research and development.
service sector.
office automation.
decentralization.
employment.
occupational status.
income distribution.
social structure.
defence industry.
international relocation of industry.
foreign investment.
capital investment.
statistical table.
Tecnologias Apropriadas (Engenharia Urbana)
Populacao.
Information technology.
Cities and towns.
technologie de l'information.
télécommunications.
changement technologique.
changement structurel.
localisation industrielle.
zone urbaine.
développement régional.
capitalisme.
industrie électronique.
industrie des ordinateurs.
recherche et développement.
secteur tertiaire.
bureautique.
décentralisation.
emploi.
statut professionnel.
répartition du revenu.
structure sociale.
industrie d'armement.
délocalisation industrielle.
investissement étranger.
investissement de capital.
tableau statistique.
tecnología de la información.
telecomunicaciones.
cambio tecnológico.
cambio estructural.
ubicación de industrias.
zona urbana.
desarrollo regional.
capitalismo.
industria electrónica.
industria de las computadoras.
innovación.
investigación y desarrollo.
sector terciario.
automatización de oficina.
descentralización.
empleo.
posición profesional.
distribución del ingreso.
estructura social.
industria armamentista.
reubicación internacional de industrias.
inversiones extranjeras.
inversiones de capital.
cuadros estadísticos.
USA.
Etats-Unis.
Estados Unidos.
Society Effects of Information technology

Form/genre:

Statistics.
graph.
map.
carte géographique.
graphique.
gráfico.
mapa.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291313
Call No.: BIB 234875
Status: Available