Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access

We are on the verge of what many are calling the "second information revolution," based on ubiquitous access to both computing and information. Handheld communication devices will become portable and even wearable remote control devices for both the social and physical worlds. At the same...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Miller, Harvey J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:GeoJournal Library, 88
Temas:
Geography.
Application software.
Human geography.
Sociology, Urban.
Computer and Information Systems Applications.
Human Geography.
Urban Sociology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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