Technocities —— The Culture and Political Economy of the Digital Revolution

----- 技术性：数字革命的文化与政治经济

ISBN: 9780761955559 出版年：1999 页码：225 SAGE Publications Ltd

Information and communication technologies are said to be transforming urban life dramatically and bringing about rapid economic and cultural globalization. This book explores the many fascinating and urgent issues involved by relating advanced theoretical debates to practical matters of communication with cultural policy. It maps out a range of optimistic' and pessimistic' scenarios with special regard to various forms of inequality, particularly class, gender and geopolitical. Topics discussed include urban planning, virtual cities and actual cities, economic and political policy, and critical social analysis of current trends that are of momentous consequence. The book concludes that it is necessary to bring together a number of diffe