The cybercities reader / [edited by] Stephen Graham.

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 -- Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age / Manuel Castells -- The Capsule and the Network: Notes Toward a General Theory / Lieven de Cauter -- Cities Without Modernity, Cities With Magic / Nigel Thrift -- Cyberspace Meets the Compulsion of Proximity / Deirdre Boden and Harvey Molotch -- The Co-Existence of Cyborgs, Humachines and Environments in Postmodernity: Getting Over the End of Nature / Timothy Luke -- Sect. III. Cybercities: hybrid forms and recombinant spaces -- Eclectic Atlases / Stefano Boeri -- The City of Bits Hypothesis / William Mitchell -- Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissible City / Mike Crang -- Generation Txt: The Telephone Hits the Street / Zac Carey -- Excavating the Material Geographies of Cybercities / Stephen Graham -- Learning from September 11th: ICT Infrastructure Collapses in a "Global" Cybercity / Anthony Townsend -- Sect. IV. Cybercity mobilities -- People / Nick Barley -- Do Telecommunications Make Transportation Obsolete? / Pnina Ohana Plaut -- The City and the Cybercar / Mimi Sheller and John Urry -- Cybercommuting on an Information Superhighway: The Case of Melbourne's CityLink / David Holmes -- The New Orgman: Logistics as an Onganising Principle of Contemporary Cities / Keller Easterling -- Deterritorialisation and the Airport / Mark Gottdeiner -- Sect. V. Cybercity economies -- Agglomeration in the Digital Era? / Saskia Sassen -- Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis / Vincent Mosco -- Cyberspace and Local Places: The Urban Dominance of Dot.Com Geography in the Late 1990s / Matthew Zook -- Teleworking and the City: Myths of Workplace Transcendence and Travel Reduction / Andrew Gillespie and Ranald Richardson -- The Caribbean Data Processors / Ewart Skinner -- Geographies of E-Commerce: The Case of Amazon.com / Martin Dodge -- The Web, the Grocer and the City / Andrew Murphy -- E-Commerce and Urban Space in Japan: Accessing the Net via Convenience Stores / Yuko Aoyama -- Space Jam: Media Conglomerates Build the Entertainment City / Susan Davis -- Sect. VI. Social and cultural worlds of cybercities -- Habit@Online: Web Portals as Purchasing Ideology / Robert Luke -- At Home With the Media / David Morley -- Netville: Community On and Offline in a Wired Suburb / Keith Hampton -- Gender and Landscapes of Computing in an Internet Cafe / Nina Wakeford -- Speaking Mobile: Intensified Everyday Life, Condensed City / Timo Kopomaa -- The City in Cyberspace / Anne Beamish -- Identity, Embodiment, and Place: Virtual Reality as Postmodern Technology / Ken Hillis -- Sect. VII. Cybercity public domains and digital divides -- Cyburbanism as a Way of Life / Fred Dewey -- San Francisco: Capital of the Twenty-First Century / Rebecca Solnit and Susan Shwartenberg -- Surveillance in the City / David Lyon -- Defining the Technology Gap / Benton Foundation -- Bangalore: Internal Disparities of a City Caught in the Information Age / Shirin Madon -- Public Internet Cabins and the Digital Divide in Developing World Megacities: A Case Study of Lima / Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado -- Access Denied / Danny Kruger -- The Software-Sorted City: Rethinking the 'Digital Divide' / Stephen Graham -- Sect. VII. Cybercity strategy and politics -- Planning Cyber-Cities? Integrating Telecommunications into Urban Planning / Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin -- Cyberjaya and Putrajaya: Malaysia's "Intelligent" Cities / Tim Bunnell -- Grounding Global Flows: Constructing an E-Commerce Hub in Singapore / Neil Coe and Henry Wai-chung Yeung -- Cybernetic Wal-Mart: Will Internet Tax Breaks Kill Main Street USA? / Richard Sclove -- Recombinations for Community Meaning / Thomas Horan -- Retrofitting Sprawl: A Cyber Strategy for Livable Communities / Walter Siembab -- The Rise and Fall of the Digital City Metaphor and Community in 1990s Amsterdam / Geert Lovink -- Public Spheres and Network Interfaces / Andreas Broeckmann -- Sect. IX. Cybercity futures -- The Future of the Future in Planning Theory: Appropriating Cyberpunk Visions of the City / Rob Warren, Stacy Warren, Samuel Nunn and Colin Warren -- Terminal 2098 / Martin Pawley -- Sustainable Tourist Space: From Reality to Virtual Reality? / Jean Michel Dewailly -- A Letter from the Future / John Adams -- Life After Cyberspace / Philip Agre -- How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism / Peter Huber and Mark Mills.