Technocities
：The Culture and Political Economy of the Digital Revolution
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Publication subTitle ：The Culture and Political Economy of the Digital Revolution
Publication series ：1
Author： Downey John;McGuigan Jim
Publisher： Sage Publications Ltd
Publication year： 1999
E-ISBN: 9781847876874
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780761955559
Subject： C912.8 regional sociology
Keyword： 语言学
Language： ENG
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Description
Information and communication technologies are said to be transforming urban life dramatically and bringing about rapid economic and cultural globalization. This book explores the many fascinating and urgent issues involved by relating advanced theoretical debates to practical matters of communication with cultural policy. It maps out a range of `optimistic' and `pessimistic' scenarios with special regard to various forms of inequality, particularly class, gender and geopolitical. Topics discussed include urban planning, virtual cities and actual cities, economic and political policy, and critical social analysis of current trends that are of momentous consequence. The book concludes that it is necessary to bring together a number of diffe