CONTENTS List of illustrations xv List of contributors xvii Acknowledgements xx Introduction; From dreams of transcendence to the remediation of urban life 1 PART1 UNDERSTANDING CYBERCITIES 31 Section I Cybercity archaeologies 33 Introduction 35 'Inhuman Geographies: Landscapes of Speed. Light and Power 39 Nigel Thrift The City and the Telegraph; Urban Telecommunications in the Pre-Telephone Era 44 Joel Tarr 'The Structure of Cities' 47 Ithiel de Sola Pool The Urban Place and the Non-Place Urban Realm1 50 Melvyn Webber The Cable Fable Revisited: Discourse, Policy and the Making of Cable Television1 53 Thomas Streeter 'Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape' 57 Thomas J. Campanella Section II Theorising cybercities 65 Introduction 67 'Postscript on Societies of Control 73 Gilles Deleuze The Third Interval' 78 Paul Virilio 'Space of Flows, Space of PSaces: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age' 82 Manuel Castells 'The Capsule and the Network: Notes Toward a General Theory' 94 Lieven de Cauter 'Cities Without Modernity, Cities With Magic 98 Nigel Thrift 'Cybenspace Meets the Compulsion of Proximity' 101 Deirdre Boden and Harvey Molotch 'The Co-Existence of Cyborgs, Humachines and Environments in Postmodernity: Getting Over the End of Nature3 , 106 Timothy Luke Section III Cybercities: hybrid forms and recombinant spaces 111 Introduction 113 'Eclectic Atlases' 117 Stefano Boeri The City of Bits Hypothesis' 123 William Mitchell 'Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissible City1 129 Mike Crang 'Generation Txt: The Telephone Hits the Street' 133 Zac Carey 'Excavating the Material Geographies of Cybercities 138 Stephen Graham 'Learning from September 11 th: ICT Infrastructure Collapses in a Global Cybercity' o 143 Anthony Townsend PART 2 CYBERCITY DIMENSIONS 149 Section IV Cybercity mobilities 151 Introduction 153 'People' 159 Nick Barley 'Do Telecommunications Make Transportation Obsolete?' 162 Pnina Ohana Plaut 'The City and the Cybercaf 167 Mimi Sheller and John Urry 'Cybercommuting on an Information Superhighway: The Case of Melbourne's CityLink' 173 David Holmes The New Orgman: Logistics as an Organising Principle of Contemporary Cities' 179 Keller Easter! ing 'Deterritorialisation and the Airport' 185 Mark Gottdeiner Section V Cybercity economies 189 Introduction 191 'Agglomeration in the Digital Era? 195 Saskia Sassen 'Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the Mew Computer TechnopoMs 199 Vincent Mosco 'Cyberspace and LocaS Places,: The Urban Domfnance of DpLCom Geography in the Late 1990s' 205 Matthew Zook 'Teleworking and the City: Myths of Workplace Transcendence and Travel Reduction' 212 Andrew Gillespie and Ranald Richardson The Caribbean Data Processors' 218 Ewart Skinner 'Geographies of E-Commerce: The Case of Amazon.com' 221 Martin Dodge 'The Web, the Grocer and the City1 228 Andrew Murphy 'E-Commerce and Urban Space in japan: Accessing the Net via Convenience Stores' 231 Yuko Aoyama 'Space Jam: Media Conglomerates Buiid the Entertainment City' 235 Susan Davis Section VI Social and cultural worlds of cybercities 239 Introduction 241 'Habit@Online: Web Portals as Purchasing Ideology' 249 Robert Luke 'At Home With the Media1 252 David Morley 'Netville: Community On and Offline in a Wired Suburb' 25S Keith Hampton 'Gender and Landscapes of Computing an an internet Cafe' 283 Nina Wakeford 'Speaking Mobile: Intensified Everyday Life, Condensed City' 267 Timo Kopomaa The City in Cyberspaee' 273 Anne Beamish 'Identity, Embodiment, and Place: Virtual Reality as Pcustmodsrn Technology' 279 Ken Hillis Section VII Cybercity public domains and digital divides 283 Introduction 285 'Cyburbanism as a Way of Life1 291 Fred Dewey 'San Francisco: Capital of the Twenty-First Century 298 Rebecca Solnit and Susan Shwartenberg 'Surveillance in the City1 299 David Lyon 'Defining the Technology Gap1 306 Benton Foundation 'Bangalore: Internal Disparities of a City Caught in the Information Age' 309 Shirin Madon 'Public Internet Cabins and the Digital Divide in Developing World Megacities; A Case Study of Lima' 314 Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado 'Access Denied' 320 Danny Kruger The Software-Sorted City: Rethinking the Digital Divide 324 Stephen Graham PART 3 SHAPING CYBERCITIES? 333 Section VIII Cybercity strategy and politics 335 Introduction 337 'Planning Cyber-Cities? Integrating Telecommunications. Into Urban Planning 341 Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin 'Cyberjaya and Putrajaya: Malaysia's Intelligent Cities' 348 Tim Bunnell 'Grounding Global Flows: Constructing an E-Cornmerce Hub in Singapore' 354 Neil Coe and Henry Wai-chung Yeung Cybernetic Wal-Mart: Will internet Tax Breaks Kill Main Street USA? 360 Richard Sclove 'Recombinations for Community Meaning 363 Thomas Horan 'Retrofitting Sprawi: A Cyber Strategy for Livable Communities' 366 Walter Siembab The Rise and Fall of the Digital City Metaphor and Carmnumly in 1990s Amsterdam' 371 Geert Lovink 'Public Spheres and Network Interfaces' 378 Andreas Broeckmann Section IX Cybercity futures 385 Introduction 387 The Future of the Future in Planning Theory: Appropriating Cyberpunk Visions o! the City' 395 Rob Warren, Stacy Warren, Samuel Nunn and Colin Warren Terminal 2098' 401 Martin Pawley 'Sustainable Tourist Space; From Reality to Virtual Reality?1 40? Jean Michel Dewailly 'A Letter from the Future1' 411 John Adams 'Life After Cyberspace' 415 Philip Agre 'How Technology W^S Defeai Ten-prism' 418 Peter Huber and Mark Mills Illustration credits 427 Copyright information 430 Index 435