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Making the Digital City

Aurigi, Alessandro

2016,2005

Overview

Since the late 1990s, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been hailed as a potentially revolutionary feature of the planning and management of Western cities. Economic regeneration and place promotion strategies have exploited these new technologies; city management has experimented with electronically distributed services, and participation in public life and democratic decision-making processes can be made more flexible by the use of ICTs. All of these technological initiatives have often been presented and accessed via an urban front-end information site known as 'digital city' or 'city network.' Illustrated by a range of European case studies, this volume examines the social, political and management issues and potential problems in the establishment of an electronic layer of information and services in cities. The book provides a better understanding of the direction European cities are going towards in the implementation of ICTs in the urban arena. Alessandro Aurigi, Alessandro is Professor of Urban Design in the School of Architecture, Design and Environment at the University of Plymouth. He holds a Laurea in Architecture from Florence University, Italy, and a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has worked previously at University College London. His main research interest is studying the relationships between the emergence of the 'information society' and the ways we imagine, conceive, represent, and manage buildings and cities. Contents: The Context: Public Space and Cyberspace: Introduction; Cyberspace and the city's public sphere; Exploring the digital city. The Early Steps of the Digital City: The web cities phenomenon in Europe; History of a civic network: Iperbole in Bologna; When Bristol went digital. Issues, Dilemmas and the Future: Lessons to be learnt from Bologna and Bristol; Conclusions: what next for the digital city?; Bibliography; Index.

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Ashgate,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Area planning (Civic art) / Cities and towns / Cities and towns -- European Union countries -- Information services / City planning / City planning -- Technological innovations -- European Union countries / Cultural Studies / Cyberspace / Cyberspace -- European Union countries / European Union countries / Information technology / Information technology -- Social aspects -- European Union countries / Internet / Internet -- Social aspects -- European Union countries / Metropolitan areas / Metropolitan areas -- European Union countries -- Information services / Public spaces / Public spaces -- European Union countries / Technological innovations / Urban Design / Urban information systems; Web cities; Civic web sites / Urban Sociology
• ISBN: 1351920634, 9781351920636, 0754643646, 1138276537, 9780754643647, 9781138276536