Technocities / edited by John Downey and Jim McGuigan. - viii,213 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction / Debates -- Towards Urban Cyberspace Planning / Grounding the Global through Urban Telematics Policy and Planning -- Foreclosing on the City? The Bad Idea of Virtual Urbanism / Information and Communications Technologies / Luddism Revisited -- Textures -- Fishing with False Teeth / Women, Gender and the Internet -- The Ideal City and the Virtual Hive / Modernism and Emergent Order in Computer Culture -- Territories -- Xs 4 All? 'Information Society Policy and Practice in the European Union / Beyond Infrastructure / Europe, The USA and Canada on the Information Highway -- Technocities and Development / Perspectives -- Designs on the City / Urban Experience in the Age of Electronic Reproduction -- New Technologies / Technocities and the Prospects for Democratization. Jim McGuigan -- Stephen Graham -- Kevin Robins -- Frank Webster -- Simone Bergman and Liesbet van Zoonen -- Julian Stallabrass -- John Downey -- Leen d'Haenens -- Simon Bell Images of Inferno and Utopia -- John Pickering -- Douglas Kellner -- Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four.

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