Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access

1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-90-481-7365-5
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Reihe: GeoJournal Library

We are on the verge of what many are calling the "second information revolution," based on ubiquitous access to both computing and information. The technologies of instant access have potential to transform dramatically our lives. This book contains chapters by leading international experts. They discuss issues surrounding the impact of instant access on cities, daily lives, transportation, privacy, social and economic networks, community and education.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Harvey J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Systemverwaltung & Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Societies and cities in the age of instant access.- Cities and the Built Environment.- The new middle landscape.- Imagining the recursive city: explorations in urban simulacra.- Download my building: How building information modeling will transform our cities.- Misses, near-misses and surprises in forecasting the informational city.- Activities in Space and Time.- Does instant access promote sedentary behavior? Putting physical activity on the instant-access-in-cities agenda.- Revisiting Hägerstrand’s time-geographic framework for individual activities in the age of instant access.- Dynamic prisms and ‘‘instant access’’: linking opportunities in space to decision making in time.- Where do you want to go today [in attribute space]?.- Transportation.- Reexamining ICT impact on travel using the 2001 NHTS data for baltimore metropolitan area.- Influence of mobility information services on travel behavior.- Shared ride trip planning with geosensor networks.- Mobile Information Services.- Mobile ICT in public spaces and its impact on privacy.- The dimensions of locational privacy.- Location-based services: Enabling technologies and a concierge service model.- From cyberspace to DigiPlace: Visibility in an age of information and mobility.- Paradoxical consequences of location-based services (LBS): A tetradic analysis using McLuhan’s laws of media.- Social and Economic Networks.- The evolving social geography of blogs.- Cell phones and places: The use of mobile technologies in Brazil.- Inter-firm relations in the age of instant access: Case of the U.S. logistics industry.- Community.- Rethinking public participation as instant access to virtual meetings.- Digital middletown: a glimpse at the information society.