Technocities

Technocities

by Downey, John McGuigan, Jim

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"Technocities explores the issues involved in urban planning in relation to computer-mediated communications and cyberspace, including urban planning, virtual and actual cities, and gender and the Internet. Running throughout is a tension between optimistic and pessimistic scenarios for the technocity. The contributors address a complex set of questions, and move beyond the usual images of technological heaven and hell, and technophilia and technophobia, to bring together a number of differentl…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Technocities / edited by John Downey and Jim McGuigan.

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"Technocities explores the issues involved in urban planning in relation to computer-mediated communications and cyberspace, including urban planning, virtual and actual cities, and gender and the Internet. Running throughout is a tension between optimistic and pessimistic scenarios for the technocity. The contributors address a complex set of questions, and move beyond the usual images of technological heaven and hell, and technophilia and technophobia, to bring together a number of differently informed approaches, to make sense of a field of dynamic and contradictory forces." "Technocities will be essential reading for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates in media, cultural and communication studies; geography and urban planning; and sociology."--BOOK JACKET.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1999.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):SAGE
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1999.

The Physical Object

  • Description:viii, 213 p. ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0761955550, 9780761955559, 0761955569, 9780761955566
  • oclc:on1322329249
  • LC Classification:HT119
  • Dewey Decimal:307.76

Subjects

Cities and towns -- Effect of technolog… Telecommunication Telecommunication -- Social aspects

Writers

Downey, John McGuigan, Jim

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