Digital Cities

This exciting new text examines the ways digital technologies are transforming cities across the globe, focusing on three key themes:

- technology, people and politics - explores how power shapes technological development

- the cyborg self - discusses the integration of digital technologies into human physiology

- the network city - examines the implications of cities simultaneously being distinct territorial units and sites of intersecting networks operating on local and global scales.

In exploring these themes the book thoroughly examines the ways in which digital technologies are shaping urban economies, governance, social and cultural life, infrastructure and urban form, and urban planning and policy. It provides a clear critical introduction to key research themes on digital technologies and urban development, and numerous engaging examples and illustrations are used throughout to illustrate examples and ground discussions.
As the only introductory text to examine the impact of digital technologies on a range of urban economic, cultural, political and physical processes, this book is a valuable resource for students of urban studies, geography and planning. It incorporates a sustained discussion on the ways in which politics and power shape technological and urban development, and emphasizes the historical continuities between communication technology and urban development.