The Cybercities Reader

Introduction: From dreams of transcendence to the remediation of urban life p.1, Part 1: Understanding Cybercities p.31, Section I: Cybercity archaeologies p.33, Introduction p.35, Inhuman Geographies: Landscapes of Speed, Light and Power' Nigel Thrift p.39, The City and the Telegraph: Urban Telecommunications in the Pre-Telephone Era' Joel Tarr p.44, The Structure of Cities' Ithiel de Sola Pool p.47, The Urban Place and the Non-Place Urban Realm' Melvyn Webber p.50, The Cable Fable Revisited: Discourse, Policy and the Making of Cable Television' Thomas Streeter p.53, Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape' Thomas J. Campanella p.57, Section Il: Theorising cybercities: Introduction p.67, 'Postscript on Societies of Control Gilles Deleuze p.73, The Third Interval Paul Virilio p.78, Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age' Manuel Castells p.82, The Capsule and the Network: Notes Toward a General Theory Lieven de Cauter p.94, Cities without Modernity, Cities with Magic' Nigel Thrift p.98, Cyberspace Meets the Comnpulsion of Proximity' Deirdre Boden and Harvey Molotch p.101, The Co-Existence of Cyborgs, Humachines and Environments in Postmodernity: Getting over the End of Nature' Timothy Luke p.106, Section III: Cybercities: hybrid forms and recombinant spaces p.111, Introduction p.113, Eclectic Atlases' by Stefano Boeri p.17, The City of Bits Hypothesis' William Mitchell p.123, "Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissible City Mike Crang p.129, 'Generation Txt: The Telephone Hits the Street' Zac Carey p.133, Excavating the Material Geographies of Cybercities' Stephen Graham p.138, Learning from Septenber 11th: ICT Infrastructure Collapses in a "Global" Cybercity Anthony Townsend p.143, Part 2: Cybercity Dimensions p.149, Section IV: Cybercity mobilities p.151, Introduction p.153, 'People' Nick Barley p.159, 'Do Telecommunications Make Transportation Obsolete?' Pnina Ohana Plaut p.162, The City and the Cybercar p.167, Mimi Sheller and John Urry Cybercommuting on an Information Superhighway: The Case of Melbourne's City Link' David Holmes p.173, The New Orgman: Logistics as an Organising Principle of Contemporary Cities' Keller Easterling p.179, Deterritorialisation and the Airport Mark Gottdeiner p.185, Section V: Cybercity economies p,189, Introduction p.191, "Agglomeration in the Digital Era?' Saskia Sassen p.195, Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis' Vincent Mosco p.199, 'Cyberspace and Local Places: The Urban Dominance of Dot.Com Geography in the Late 1990s' Matthew Zook p.205, 'Teleworking and the City: Myths of Workplace Transcendence and Travel Reduction' Andrew Gillespie and Ranald Richardson p.212, The Caribbean Data Processors' Ewart Skinner p.218, 'Geographies of E-Commerce: The Case of Amazon.com' Martin Dodge p.221, 'The Web, the Grocer and the City' Andrew Murphy p.226, 'E-Commerce and Urban Space in Japan: Accessing the Net via Convenience Stores' Yuko Aoyama p.231, 'Space Jam: Media Conglomerates Build the Entertainment City' Susan Davis p.235, Section VI: Social and cultural worlds of cybercities p.239, Introduction p.241, Habit@Online: Web Portals as Purchasing Ideology' Robert Luke p.249, 'At Home With the Media' David Morley p.252, "Netville: Community On and Offline in a Wired Suburb' Keith Hampton p.256, Gender and Landscapes of Computing in an Internet Café' Nina Wakeford p.263, Speaking Mobile: Intensified Everyday Life, Condensed City' Timo Kopomaa p.267, The City in Cyberspace' Anne Beamish 273, Identity. Embodiment, and Place: Virtual Reality as Postmodern Technology' Ken Hillis p.279, Section VIl: Cybercity public domains and digital divides p.283, Introduction p.285, 'Cyburbanism asa Way of Life' Fred Dewey p.291, 'San Francisco: Capital of the Twenty-First Century' Rebecca Solnit and Susan Shwartenberg p.296, 'Surveillance in the City' David Lyon p.299, 'Defining the Technology Gap' Benton Foundation 306, "Bangalore: Internal Disparities of a City Caught in the Information Age Shirin Madon p.309, "Public Internet Cabins and the Diaital Divide in Developing World Megacities: A Case Study of Lima' Ana María Fernández-Maldonado p.314, Access Denied' Danny Kruger p.320, The Software-Sorted City: Rethinking the "Digital Divide" Stephen Graham p.324, Part 3: Shaping Cybercities? Section VIll: Cybercity strategy and politics p.335, Introduction p.337, Planning Cyber-Cities? Integrating Telecommunications into Urban Planning' Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin p.341, Cyberjaya and Putrajaya: Malaysia's "|ntelligent'" Cities' Tim Bunnell p.348, Grounding Global Flows: Constructing an E-Commerce Hub in Singapore' Neil Coe and Henry Wai-chung Yeung p.354, Cybernetic Wal-Mart: Will Internet Tax Breaks Kill Main Street USA? Richard Sclove p.360, "Recombinations for Community Meaning' Thomas Horan p.363., Retrofitting Sprawl: A Cyber Strategy for Livable Communities' Walter Siembab p.366, The Rise and Fall of the Digital City Metaphor and Community in 1990s Amsterdam' Geert Lovink p.371, Public Spheres and Network Interfaces' Andreas Broeckmann p.378, Section lX: Cybercity futures p.385, Introduction p.387, The Future of the Future in Planning Theory: Appropriating Cyberpunk Visions of the City': Rob Warren, Stacy Warren, Samuel Nunn and Colin Warren p.387, Terminal 2098 Martin Pawley p.401, 'Sustainable Tourist Space: From Reality to Virtual Reality?" Jean Michel Dewailly p.401, A Letter from the future John Adams p.411, Life after Cyberspace Philip Agre p.415, How Technology will defeat Perter Huber and Make Mills p.418