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Aula Barcelona - Tecnologies de la informació i modernització
de la ciutat
http://www.aulabcn.com/catala/document_7.htm
The link that gives you information about this very interesting
collection (Aula Barcelona). Studies about urban policies
in Barcelona, and more specific about the Information Communication
Technologies and their implications to urban development |
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Being Digital
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/
The Cyberdock version of Nicholas Negroponte's bestselling
"Being Digital", published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. |
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Beyond Telecommuting: a New Paradigm for the effect of
Telecommunications on Travel
http://www.lbl.gov/ICSD/Niles/
A very interesting document concerned to the telecommuting
issues |
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Cybersociology magazine
http://www.cybersoc.com/
Cybersociology is a non-profit multi-disciplinary webzine
dedicated to the critical discussion of the internet, cyberspace,
cyberculture and life online |
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City of Bits
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-books/City_of_Bits/
The City of Bits Web site is an imaginative, compelling, and
dynamic companion to the "analog" book by William J. Mitchell,
dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT |
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City of Bits (non official website) http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~echau/project.html
A homepage based on William Mitchell's book named "City of
Bits" |
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City of Bits (non official website)
http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~y.wang/mat200a/
Non official website presented by Yan Wang |
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City of Bits
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/hypermedia/thomas_swiss/pages/
A poem which can be read in your computer screen, completed
with a very pleasant design. Read carefully, enjoy
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Connected Family site
http://www.connectedfamily.com/
The companion web site to the book of Seymour Papert - Connected
Family |
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Digital places
http://www.digitalplaces.uli.org/
Digital places - Discover how digital technology is affecting
the bricks and mortar of the places where we live and work
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e-topia, Software: New genius of the place
http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~y.yan/e_topia/
A very interesting website which compares Thomas More's book
"Utopia" with William J. Mitchell's book "E-topia" |
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| Knowledge-Value Cities in the Digital Age http://www.milkeninstitute.org/pdf/kvdc.pdf
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LINKED: The New Science of Networks http://www.nd.edu/~networks/linked/index.html
e page about the book - LINKED: The New Science of Networks
(How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it
Means for Science, Business and Everyday Life), also with
information about the author |
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Mapping Cyberspace
http://www.mappingcyberspace.com/
Mapping Cyberspace is one of the first, if not the first book
about the geographies of the Internet. It is an eclectic compendium
of cyber-information and a must read for anyone serious about
spatial, geographic, and cartographic representations of cyberspace."
David Maguire, ESRI Inc |
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New Community Networks - Wired for Change
http://www.scn.org/ncn/
A very interesting e - book written by Doug Schuler about
the social changes and the new technologies |
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The New Geography
http://www.newgeography.com/book.htm
In The New Geography, internationally renowned economic and
social-trend forecaster Joel Kotkin takes their first full
measure. Kotkin focuses on the digital revolution's surprising
impact on cities: their traditional role as the centers of
creativity and the crossroads for trade and culture is becoming
ever more essential in a globalized information-age economy
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Online Planning Journal
http://www.onlineplanning.org
The Online Planning Journal is a refereed journal, distributed
via the World Wide Web. All articles are peer reviewed and
archived at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University
College London. The journal provides a forum for innovative
papers exploring issues related to and arising from placing
the planning system online |
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The rise of the creative class
http://www.creativeclass.org/bio.htm
The page of this book with information about the author, speechs,
regional rankings... |
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Siliconia
http://www.tbtf.com/siliconia.html
Here is the definitive collection of Siliconia on the Web.
Siliconia are appropriations of names beginning with "Silicon"
by areas outside Silicon Valley. A Siliconium can be promoted
by local boosters or it can be assigned to an area in a press
account |
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Smart Community Conference Papers
http://www.schoolnet.ca/ln-rb/e/doing/papers.html
Several presenters from the Get Smart! : Economic Development,
Libraries, and Smart Communities conference held in Toronto
in June 1999 have made written versions of their papers available
here in PDF format |
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Smart Communities Implementation Guide
http://www.smartcommunities.org/guide/index.html
How California Communities can thrive in Digital Age |
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The Social Life of Information
http://www.slofi.com/
The page about the book - The Social Life of Information,
with information about the authors and also with interviews
with them |
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SURFnet News
http://www.surfnet.nl/
SURFnet News ('SURFnet Nieuws' in Dutch) is an electronic
weekly in the Dutch language that informs users of the SURFnet
network and other interested parties of the most recent developments
in the field of education and information and communication
technology (ICT). The editors of SURFnet News make a selection
of the most interesting news items and present these in short
texts |
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The use of space in the information/communication age
- processing the unplannable http://www.infodrome.nl/publicaties/domeinen/07_rui_vog_essay.html
This text on "The use of space in the information/communication
age - processing the unplannable" addresses the changes in
urban structures and in the role of the planner as well as
new planning paradigms. It is published in English on the
homepage the think-tank of the Dutch government, entitled
"Infodrome" |
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Wired magazine
http://www.wired.com/
Wired magazine is the journal of record for the future. It's
daring. Compelling. Innovative. Courageous. Insightful. It
speaks not just to high-tech professionals and the business
savvy, but also to the forward-looking, the culturally astute,
and the simply curious |
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